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Title The participation of minorities in public life / Council of Europe
Published Strasbourg, France : Council of Europe Publishing, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (140 pages)
Series Science and Technique of Democracy ; Number 45
Science and technique of democracy ; no. 45.
Contents THE PARTICIPATION OF MINORITIES IN PUBLIC LIFE; Contents; Introductory address; Constitutional non-recognition of minorities in the context of unitary states: an insurmountable obstacle?; Territorial solutions for managing diversity and their changing role; Making minorities more influential in public life: opportunities provided by existing constitutional arrangements and their limitations; Special measures to promote minority representation in elected bodies: the experience of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Can international monoriting mechanisms and EU integration prospects help improve national minority participation at the domestic level?The development of a corpus of international standards and its influence at the domestic level to ensure minority participation; The revival of cultural autonomy in certain countries of eastern Europe: were lessons drawn from the inter-war period?; Contemporary forms of cultural autonomy in eastern Europe: recurrent problems and prospects for improving the functioning of elected bodies of cultural autonomy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2014)
Subject Minorities -- Political activity -- Europe -- Congresses
Political participation -- Europe -- Congresses
Minorities -- Europe -- Congresses
Ethnic relations.
Minorities.
Minorities -- Political activity.
Political participation.
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Subject Europe.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Council of Europe
ISBN 9789287172686
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9287169403
9789287169402