The acid test? Competing theses on the nationality - democracy nexus and the case of Switzerland

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-376

  Dardanelli, Paolo ^a   Stojanović, Nenad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Democracy; Multilingual societies; Multinational states; National identity; Nationalism; Post nationalism; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ETHNIC CONFLICT; LIBERALIZATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM; POST-COLONIALISM;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79953839273     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: 14698129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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