Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
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Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

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Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

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In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified – particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of majority rule, minorities should be less willing to endorse democratic institutions where their parties persistently lose elections. While such problems should also hamper transitions to democracy, several diverse Eastern European states have formed democracies even under these conditions. In this book, Sherrill Stroschein argues that sustained protest and contention by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought concessions on policies that they could not achieve through the ballot box, in contrast to Transcarpathia, Ukraine. In Romania and Slovakia, contention during the 1990s made each group accustomed to each other's claims and aware of the degree to which each could push its own. Ethnic contention became a de facto deliberative process that fostered a moderation of group stances, allowing democratic consolidation to slowly and organically take root.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
  3. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures and Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms
  11. 1 Ethnic Protest, Moderation, and Democratization
  12. 2 Time, Process, and Events in Democratization
  13. 3 Ethnic Contention in Context
  14. 4 Local Violence and Uncertainty in Târgu Mureş, 1990
  15. 5 The Power of Symbols Romanians, Hungarians, and King Mathias in Cluj
  16. 6 Forging Language Laws Schools and Sign Wars
  17. 7 Debating Local Governance Autonomy, Local Control, and Minority Enclaves
  18. 8 Implications of Group Interaction
  19. Appendix: Event Analysis
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index