Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation

Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-09160-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Minority Studies

This book provides a comparative, theoretical and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries. The functions and effects of elections serve as analytical tools that enable the book to provide a realistic overview of minority political participation in this particular institutional channel and empirical evidence on the extent to which existing normative expectations towards national-cultural autonomy are met within these arrangements. Using the elections of cultural autonomous bodies in Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia as examples, the book examines how these rather understudied institutions specific to minority councils and self-governments affect the lives of national and ethnic minorities, how they approach them and how they are established in each country. In the post-Communist environment that fundamentally rejects autonomy, these organizations are still officially referred to as autonomies, whereas they often function
more like consultative-advisory bodies. The book traces this process from the adoption of autonomy, through the polling booth, to the operational level, without avoiding sensitive issues raised by these autonomies, such as what is commonly known as ethno-business. Focusing on topical issues such as minority representation and participation, the book will be of interest to a broad group of international academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Minority Studies, Legal Studies, Political Science and Anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dobos, Balazs

Dobos, Balázs

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction 2. Theoretical Foundations 3. National-Cultural Autonomy from Historical and Regional Perspectives 4. The Main Features and Elections of National-Cultural Autonomies in Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovenia 5. The Minorities and National-Cultural Autonomies 6. The Elections of National-Cultural Autonomies in Practice 7. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Balázs Dobos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies within the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on the political and legal situation, the political participation and representation of national and ethnic minorities through various institutional channels in Hungary and in the broader Central
and Eastern European region.