The effects of ethnic separation on democratization: A comparative study

East European Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 221-242

  Basch, Raymond M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

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References (40)

1. Thompson, Dennis L., and Dov Ronen, eds., Ethnicity, Politics, and Development (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986), 1.
2. Duch, Raymond M, and Stephen Porter, "Institutional Past and Democratic Consolidation in Former Communist Regimes." New York: American Political Science Association, September 1994. Photocopied, 1.
3. Duch, Raymond M, and Stephen Porter, "Institutional Past and Democratic Consolidation in Former Communist Regimes." 1994. Ibid., 4-5.
4. North, Douglass C., Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 3.
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6. North, 11.
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8. Ethnic Groups and the State (1985), Ibid., 25-26.
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10. di Palma, Giuseppe, To Craft Democracies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 8, 28 .
11. Brass, 35.
12. Esman, Milton J., Ethnic Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 1-48 passim.
13. Duch, Raymond M., "Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes," Journal of Politics, 57 (February 1995), 122.
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15. Thompson, 2.
16. Miller, David, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1987), 352.
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18. Lijphart, Arend, "The Comparable Cases Strategy in Comparative Research" in Louis J. Cantori and Andrew H. Ziegler, Jr., eds., Comparative Politics in the Behavioral Era (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988).
19. Seymore, Bruce II, ed., The Access Guide to Ethnic Conflicts in Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Washington: Access, 1994), 1.
20. Dahl, Robert J., Polyarchy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), 106.
21. Here I use a standard axiom that military conflict, such as that used in the secessionist Dniestr Moldavian Republic, is a political action.
22. For a complete discussion of subcultures or what I term ethnic groups, see Dahl's Polyarchy, chapter 7.
23. Rothschild, 86-93 passim.
24. Ibid., 232.
25. di Palma, 16.
26. Armstrong, John A., "Nationalism in the Former Soviet Empire," Problems of Communism, 41 (January/April 1992): 121-122.
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30. Thompson, 5.
31. The Europa World Year Book 1994, 2028.
32. Socor, 19, 23.
33. The Europa World Year Book 1994, 2996.
34. Solchanyk, "The Politics of State Building," Europe-Asia Studies, 46 (January 1994): 47.
35. By the word artificial, here I mean the establishment of the political boundaries of a state without regard to the dispersion of ethnic groups The drawing of nation-state borders along ethnic lines I would term natural borders which rarely, if ever, happens.
36. Markus, Ustina, "Belarus: You Can't Go Home Again?" Current History, 93 (October 1994): 337.
37. For a further discussion on the mosaic approach in democratic society see: Lipset, Seymour M., Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada (New York: Routledge, 1990), 172.
38. di Palma, 110.
39. Wickham-Crowley, Timothy, Guerrilla Movements and Revolution in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 302-326 passim.
40. Duch, 3-4.