Accommodating ethnic diversity in a modernizing democratic state: Theory and practice in the case of Mauritius

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 120-142

  Carroll, Barbara Wake ^a   Carroll, Terrance ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Civic networks; Conflict regulation; Development; Ethnic conflict; Inter ethnic harmony; Mauritius

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ETHNICITY; ETHNOPOLITICS;

MAURITIUS;

EID: 0033965137     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014198700329150     Document Type: Article

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