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Political Participation of Minorities
A Commentary on International Standards and Practice
Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs
920 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956998-4
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Hardback
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04 February 2010
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- First comprehensive assessment of the right to political participation of minorities
- Clear overview of current international standards on minority rights
- Written with both academics and practitioners in mind by a range of international experts
- Forewords by Alan Phillips, President of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee, and Knut Vollebaek,
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
This Commentary provides the reader with a review of international standards and practice relating to the political participation of minorities. Political participation has been increasingly recognized as a foundational issue in the debate about minority rights. It is argued that minorities are more likely to feel co-ownership in the state if they have the opportunity to participate freely and effectively in all aspects of its governance, and that sustained and meaningful engagement will guard against the sense of alienation and exclusion among minorities that often emerges in ethnically divided societies.
Taking as its starting point the two most important standard-setting documents in the field - the Lund Recommendations on the
Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life, developed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Council of Europe's Thematic Commentary on the Issue of Political Participation of Minorities - the Commentary locates the international legal entitlement to political participation within the wider context of the right to democratic governance. It also considers effective participation in relation to the right to full and effective equality, as well as the legal entrenchment of these provisions and implementation mechanisms. Individual chapters then consider each of the principal mechanisms aimed at enhancing political participation, ranging from procedures covering minority representation in political institutions to consultative mechanisms and
autonomy solutions.
The Commentary draws on a team of experts, all of whom are recognized authorities in this specialized area of minority issues.Readership: Scholars of minority issues, political participation, and conflict resolution; legal officers of NGOs in this field; post-graduate students
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Marc Weller, Reader in International Law, University of Cambridge, and Katherine Nobbs, External Consultant, European Centre for Minority Issues Contributors:
Ilona Klímová-Alexander, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Florian Bieber, University of Kent
Karen Bird, McMaster University
Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College
Lars-Erik Cederman, EHT Zurich
Alain Chablais, Administrative Federal Court of Switzerland
Krzysztof Drzewicki, Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Yash Ghai, formerly University of Hong Kong
Kristin Henrard, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Emma Lantschner, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Zdenka Machnyikova, formerly OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Josef Marko, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
John McGarry, Queen's University, Canada
Andraz A. Melansek, formerly University of Cambridge
Brian Min, University of California
Ephraim Nimni, Queen's University Belfast
Brendan O'Leary, University of Pennsylvania
Francesco Palermo, Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Oleh Protsyk, European Centre for Minority Issues
Luis Rodríguez-Piñero, University of Seville
Eva Sobotka,
Fernand de Varennes, former
Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict
Peter Vermeersch, University of Leuven
Annelies Verstichel, Belgian Government
Steven Wheatley, University of Leeds
Andreas Wimmer, University of California
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Introduction
Marc Weller: Democratic governance and minority political participation: Emerging legal standards and practice
General Issues
1: Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman and Brian Min: Ethnic Diversity, Political Exclusion and Armed Conflict: A quantitative analysis of a global dataset
2: John McGarry: Ethnic Domination in Democracies
3: Annelies Verstichel: Understanding Minority Participation and Representation and the Issue of Citizenship
4: Zdenka Machnyikova and Lanna Hollo: The Principles of Non-discrimination and Full and Effective Equality and Political Participation
5: Karen Bird II. Legal Frameworks: Gendering Minority Participation in Public Life
6: Steven Wheatley: Minorities, Political Participation, and Democratic Governance under the European Convention on Human Rights
7: Josef Marko: The Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities and the Advisory Committee's Thematic Commentary on Effective Participation
8: Krzysztof Drzewicki: OSCE Lund Recommendations in the Practice of the High Commissioner on National Minorities
9: Ilona Klímová-Alexander: Effective Participation by Minorities: UN Standards and Practice
10: Luis Rodríguez-Piñero Royo: Political Participation Systems Applicable to Indigenous Peoples
III. Representation11: Andraz A Melansek: Universal and European Standards of Political Participation of Minorities
12: Brendan O'Leary: Electoral Systems and the Lund Recommendations
13: Oleh Protsyk: Making Effective Use of Parliamentary Representation
14: Florian Bieber: Power-sharing at the Government Level
15: Francesco Palermo: At the Heart of Participation and its Dilemmas: Minorities in the executive structures
16: Fernand de Varennes: Political Participation and Power-sharing in Ethnic Peace Settlements
IV: Consultation and Special Issue Participation
17: Marc Weller: Minority Consultative Mechanisms: Towards Best Practice
18: Eva Sobotka: Special Contact Mechanisms for Roma
19: Kristin Henrard: Participation in Social and Economic Life
20: Katherine Nobbs: International Benchmarks: A review of minority participation in the judiciary
V: Minority Self-governance
21: Yash Ghai: Participation as Self-governance
22: Ephraim Nimni: Cultural Minority Self-governance
23: Bill Bowring: Enhanced Local Self-government as a Means of Enhancing Minority Governance
24: Peter Vermeersch: Minority Associations: Issues of representation, internal democracy and legitimacy
Part VI: Implementation Issues
25: Emma Lantschner: Minority Participation in Bilateral and International Reporting and Monitoring Processes
26: Alain Chablais: Legal Entrenchment and Implementation Mechanisms
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