Many new democracies are characterized by majority dominance and ethnocentrism. Varying paths or transitions toward democracy create very different outcomes for

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious z

Ethnic democracy is a form of democratic ethnic conflict regulation in deeply divided societies. In The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy, Yoav Peled argues that et

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of cons