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Description
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? The contributors to this book answer this question by examining a wide variety of cases, including those in developing and industrialized states and democratic and authoritarian regimes. They find that territorial pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing difference in multinational states.
Contributor Notes
Karlo Basta is an assistant professor of political science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. John McGarry is Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. Richard Simeon was a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Other contributors: Mira Bachvarova, Bruce J. Berman, César Colino, John Boye Ejobowah, Angustias Hombrado, Michael Keating, Peter Kraus, André Laliberté, Margaret Moore, Brendan O’Leary, Wilfried Swenden
Editorial Review
This is undoubtedly a definitive and comprehensive volume; it will be an invaluable source book for policymakers and scholars alike who have an abiding interest in the management of differences in multinational states.
— Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 55 No. 1, December 2016
