Conflict and Coexistence in Belgium
Author | : Arend Lijphart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arend Lijphart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth Douglas McRae |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0889201951 |
After the French Revolution, Switzerland developed from a country in which German dominated linguistically into a confederation of four officially recognised language groups -- German, French, Italian, Romansh -- concentrated in different geographical areas and marked by distinctive cultures and lifestyles. Following a historical overview of this development and the social and political institutionalisation of the linguistic cleavages, McRae's study examines key elements in the functioning of modern Swiss society; political parties, federal and cantonal institutions, the media, educational and cultural policies, the relation between the linguistic cleavages and class and religion, the attitudes and behaviour of the four language groups to one another. It concludes by reviewing the various explanations advanced to explain the relative social and political stability of Switzerland.
Author | : Roger Eatwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134772904 |
This comparative study of the political cultures of the major european nations, explores the notion of nationhood as it applies in different political contexts.
Author | : Marleen Brans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 131799003X |
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been complemented by a more detailed coverage of Belgium's spectacular transformation process from a unitary into a federal state, moving rapidly now to disintegration. Likewise, several peculiar aspects of Belgian politics, such as the record fragmentation of its party system, have been covered in edited volumes or international journals. However, given the complexity of the Belgian configuration of political institutions and actors, any inclusion of particular aspects of the Belgian case in comparative work calls for an in depth and integrated understanding of the broader political system. This is the first book which provides such an analysis. It brings together a team of 19 political scientists and sociologists who aim to explain the dynamics and incentives of institutional change and seek to analyze the intricate interplay between the main institutional components of the Belgian body politic. The sociological, political and institutional determinants and the consequences of the "federalisation" process of Belgium is the central theme that links each of the individual chapters. This book will be essential reading for students who want to understand the politics of Belgium and for anyone with a strong interest in West European Politics, comparative politics and comparative federalism. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.
Author | : Jonas Claes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Conflict management |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Didier Caluwaerts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000517292 |
This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive analysis of Belgian politics, the guiding questions throughout each of the chapters of this book are: Is Belgium a political enigma, and why? Along which axes is Belgium "exceptional" compared to other countries? And what insights does a comparative study of Belgian politics have to offer? The book therefore provides a critical assessment of how Belgian politics "stands out" internationally, both in good and bad ways – including consociationalism, federalism, democratic innovations, Euroscepticism, government formation, gender equality, among others – and which factors can explain Belgium’s exceptional position. Based on cutting-edge research findings, the book will be of wide interest to scholars and students of Belgian politics, European Politics and Comparative politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author | : Gregg Bucken-Knapp |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791487202 |
Why and when do linguistic cleavages within a nation become politicized? Using Norway—where language has played a particularly salient role in the nation's history—as a case study, Gregg Bucken-Knapp explores these questions and challenges the notion that the politicization of language conflict is a response to language problems. He shows that political elites often view language conflict as a political opportunity, placing it on the policy agenda as an effective mobilizing tool to serve their own nonlinguistic political ends. Although language-oriented interest groups may fight to achieve desired language policies, they are generally unsuccessful when their preferences clash with the broader objectives of political elites. This book focuses on understanding just how language policies emerge.
Author | : Theo Hermans |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474241441 |
This documentary history of the Flemish movement and its role as a social, intellectual and political force in Belgium recounts the struggle for the recognition of the language and cultural identity of the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium.
Author | : Hans Goebl |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3110132648 |