Political Participation of Minorities

A Commentary on International Standards and Practice
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-956998-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 920 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1500 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of minority issues, political participation, and conflict resolution; legal officers of NGOs in this field; post-graduate students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weller, Marc

Nobbs, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 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. Representation

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Weller is Reader in International Law and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Hughes Hall and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. From 2000-2009 he served as Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues. His principal publications include Contested Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2009), Escaping the Self-determination Trap (Nijhoff, 2008), Settling Self-determination Disputes (Nijhoff, 2008) and Universal Minority Rights (Oxford University Press, 2007). In addition to his scholarly work, Dr Weller has served as a legal advisor to governments and international organizations, and in international peace processes.

Katherine Nobbs is Project Officer at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Pristina, Kosovo, and Co-Managing Editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues.