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Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design : a Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa's Multi-ethnic Challenge.

Using a legal and multidisciplinary approach towards empirical and prescriptive analysis of contemporary minority rights standards, this book defends and elaborates a robust minority rights framework for articulating a constitutional design responsive to the claims of ethno-cultural groups in Africa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dersso, Solomon A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:Studies in international minority and group rights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; CONTENTS ; CHAPTER I ; INTRODUCTION ; 1.1. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ; 1.2. THE CONCEPT OF MINORITIES ; 1.3. THE FRAMEWORK OF MINORITY RIGHTS DEFENDED IN THIS STUDY. 
505 8 |a 1.4. THE IMPLICATIONS OF A MINORITY RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR DEMOCRATISATION IN AFRICA 1.5. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY ; 1.6. OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS ; CHAPTER II ; THE ISSUE OF MINORITIES IN AFRICA : DESCRIBING ITS CONTEXT AND UNDERSTANDING ITS NATURE ; 2.1. INTRODUCTION. 
505 8 |a 2.2. THE NATURE AND GENESIS OF ETHNO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AFRICA 2.2.1. The Pre-colonial Background; 2.2.2. Colonialism: The Emergence of New Patterns of Relations; 2.2.3. Patterns of Ethno-Cultural Diversity Bequeathed to the Post-colonial State; 2.2.3.1. States with a Majority Group; 2.2.3.2. States of Minorities; 2.3. VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF MINORITIES AND THE NATURE OF THEIR CLAIMS ; 2.3.1. Ethno-Cultural Minorities. 
505 8 |a 2.3.2. Ethno-Political Minorities2.3.3. Ethno-National Minorities; 2.3.4. Peripheral Minorities; 2.4. CONCLUSION ; CHAPTER III ; THE ISSUE OF MINORITIES IN THE POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE OF POST -COLONIAL AFRICA ; 3.1. INTRODUCTION ; 3.2. THE IMPERATIVE OF NATION-BUILDING ; 3.2.1. The Flaws and Ultimate Failure of Post-colonial Nation-Building in Africa. 
505 8 |a 3.3. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DOMINANT CONSTITUTIONAL PARADIGM OF THE NATION-STATE 3.3.1. National (Popular) Sovereignty; 3.3.2. The Limits of the Unitarist Conception of National Sovereignty; 3.3.3. The Individual-Rights-Based Conception of the State-Society Relationship; 3.4. THE 'SECOND AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE' AND THE NEGLECT OF THEISSUE OF MINORITIES ; 3.4.1. The Nature of Post-1990 Constitutional Reform. 
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