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This Book Argues That Protest By Ethnic Hungarians In Romania And Slovakia Brought About Policy Changes And Integrated Hungarian Minorities Into The Democratic Process. Ethnic Protest Allowed Groups To Learn About The Nature And Limits Of Each Other's Claims, Facilitating New Democratic Institutions-- 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,ŵs Claims, And Aware Of The Degree To Which Each Could Push Its Own. Ethnic Contention Became A D

Author

Sherrill Stroschein

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139419642

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences