【2014】Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Book 图书名称:Referendums and Ethnic Conflict in serial: National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
Author 作者:Matt Qvortrup
Publisher 出版社:University of Pennsylvania Press
Page 页数: 201
Publishing Date 出版时间: Feb 5, 2014
Language 语言:English
Size 大小: 1.4 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0812245806 , ISBN-13: 978-0812245806
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Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there has yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness. Referendums and Ethnic Conflict fills the gap with a comparative and empirical analysis of all the referendums held on ethnic and national issues from the French Revolution to the 2012 referendum on statehood for Puerto Rico. Drawing on political theory and descriptive case studies, Matt Qvortrup creates typologies of referendums that are held to endorse secession, redraw disputed borders, legitimize a policy of homogenization, or otherwise manage ethnic or national differences. He considers the circumstances that compel politicians to resort to direct democracy, such as regime change, and the conditions that might exacerbate a violent response.
Qvortrup offers a clear-eyed assessment of the problems raised when conflict resolution is sought through referendum as well as the conditions that are likely to lead to peaceful outcomes. This original political framework will provide a vital resource in the ongoing investigation into how democracy and nationalism may be reconciled.
== Table of contents ==
Introduction 1
1. The History and Logic of Ethnonational Referendums, 1791–1945 16
2. Difference-Managing Referendums 31
3. Secession and Partition 47
4. Ethnonational Referendums in Constitutional Law: A Case Study
of Scotland 71
5. Right-Sizing Referendums 81
6. Difference-Eliminating Referendums: E Pluribus Unum? 96
7. EU Referendums: Nationalism and the Politics
of Supranational Integration 114
8. Regulation of Ethnonational Referendums:
A Comparative Overview 123
Conclusion. Patterns and Tendencies
in Ethnonational Referendums 144
Appendix. Legislation and Litigation 161
Notes 163
Bibliography 169
Index 185
Acknowledgments 189