POLS 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consociationalism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Majoritarianism
20 Oct 2016
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How do states respond to ethnic diversity: different levels of diversity. Toronto, new york, london: people from different ethnic backgrounds and identities, reasonable degree of mixing, no ethnic parties, difference is not essentialising", intermarry. Deeply or intensely divided societies: very little mixing in schools, residential neighborhoods or in marriages, no mixed parties (or they are very small, varying levels of violence, examples: israel, iraq, bosnia, sri lanka, northern ireland, 1 out of 5 wars wee civil wars caused by fights for national liberation or ethnic autonomy. 9 out of 20 wars were of this sort. 3 out of 4 wars have been of this sort. West can prevent many immigrants from coming in (controlled: settler: settlers come as a group and settle in one place, apart from the society in which they are living (eg. 92. 3% of hungary is hungarian but only 6. 6% of. Romania is hungarian: ethno-national minority in several states.
