Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy

by Young, Crawford

• ISBN13: 9780312177508
• ISBN10: 031217750X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The book explores the comparative experience throughout the world in accommodating cultural diversity. Such policy spheres as decentralization and federalism, electoral systems, education, status and rights of immigrants and indigenous peoples, and affirmative action are examined by a distinguished array of international scholars. In recent years, the saliency of conflicts putting different ethnic, racial and religious groups one against another has increased dramatically. So also has realization that the world of nation-states is much more diverse than previously thought. Only a small number of the 185 independent countries are truly homogenous. With the end of the cold war, the relative importance of ethnic conflicts as a threat to international peace and stability is far greater.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(2)
Foreword	xi
1 Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy: An Overview	1	(30)
Crawford Young
2 Decentralization and the Accommodation of Ethnic Diversity	31	(41)
Yash Ghai
3 Electoral Systems	72	(36)
K.M. de Silva
4 Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy: The Role of Education	108	(25)
Jagdish Gundara
Crispin Jones
5 Indigenous Peoples: Emerging International Actors	133	(20)
Rodolfo Stavenhagen
6 Public Policies towards Immigrant Minorities in Western Europe	153	(39)
Sarah Collinson
7 Preferential Policies for Disadvantaged Ethnic Groups: Employment and Education	192	(44)
Laura D. Jenkins
Index	236