Sessions and Mandatory Readings

Day 1, 18 March: Classifying institutions of minority self-government

Lapidoth, Ruth. (1996). Autonomy. Flexible solutions to ethnic conflicts. United States Inst. of Peace Press: Washington, DC. Chapter 1 and Chapter 3.
Beretka, Katinka & Balázs Dobos. 2023. The Legal and Institutional Context of NTA, in: Marina Andeva et al. (eds.) Non-Territorial Autonomy: An Introduction, Springer, pp. 145-163.
Anderson, Liam D. (2013). Federal solutions to ethnic problems. Accommodating diversity. Routledge: Abingdon. à “Introduction”: pp. 1-10.

Day 2, 19 March: Why is minority self-government introduced?

Jenne, Erin K. (2007). Ethnic bargaining: The paradox of minority empowerment. Cornell University Press. à Chapter 1: pp. 19-37 and Chapter 2: pp. 38-53.
Zuber, Christina Isabel. (2011). Understanding the multinational game: Toward a theory of asymmetrical federalism. Comparative Political Studies 44 (5): 546-571.

Day 3, 20 March: What are the effects of minority self-government?

Day 4, 21 March: The case study method

· Gerring, John. The Case Study: What it is and what it does. In Carles Boix and Susan Stokes (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, pp. 90-122, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

· Thomas, Gary. How to do your case study. A guide for students and researchers. Sage: Los Angeles. à Chapter 9: “Out in the field. Some ways to collect data and evidence”: pp. 161-169.

· Notes on your case, remaining questions on your presentations

Day 5, 22 March: Student Workshop: “New Insights into Minority Self-Government”.

à Please choose your case(s) in advance and register your choice with me via email by 1 March 2024! (Some ideas from my knowledge of cases in Europe are listed hereafter, but please feel free to choose other cases from other parts of the world. Note that historical cases are also possible and can be very insightful):

Non-territorial autonomy in the form of cultural councils for national minorities in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Russia or in Estonia (where they have a very long history).
Non-territorial autonomy in the form of the three linguistic communities in Belgium.
Ethnic federalism in SFR Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, or in Belgium.
Ethnoterritorial federalism in Spain or India.
Federacies: Aland islands. Attempted: Kosovo.
Autonomous regions with special status in decentralized states: South Tyrol, Crimea (before Russian annexation), or Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom
Multi-ethnic regions with autonomy: Vojvodina in Serbia and Istria in Croatia.
Decentralization and local self-government rights: Macedonia / Romania
The Sami Parliaments of the Nordic countries
… your own ideas!