Appendix B: Country and Regional Scores

Hooghe, E.A.E.B.; Schakel, Arjan H.; Marks, Gary

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“…With regard to institutional depth, however, the 1925 law provided for a nondeconcentrated administration subject to central government veto. Under the measurement scale devised by Hooghe, Schakel and Marks (2008) and adapted by Coakley (2016) in the introduction to this collection, this would therefore represent a score of two points. In respect of scope, it would seem reasonable to claim that minority CSGs possessed authoritative competence in the area of cultural-educational policy, giving a score of one.…”

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Estonia: A Model for Inter-War Europe?

Smith

2015

Ethnopolitics

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ABSTRACT. While Estonia's 1925 Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities is often cited as a rare functioning example of Renner and Bauer's non-territorial autonomy scheme, there has until recently been comparatively little research on how the law operated in practice. This article analyses the institutions of German and Jewish minority self-government established in inter-war Estonia, arguing that (prior to the eclipse of democracy in 1934, at least) these possessed considerable depth and authoritative competence in the area of cultural and educational policy. Cultural autonomy did not resolve all outstanding points of division between state, majority and (in particular) Baltic German minority; nevertheless, it played a positive role in the regulation of ethnonational tensions. Even less well-known is the international resonance of this unique law, which transnational minority activists argued should serve as a general model for the regulation of minority disputes. The League of Nations rightly questioned this claim, and the non-territorial autonomy model was scarcely applied beyond the Baltic region during the 1920s. However, it is still instructive to revisit the 1925 law today, at a time when several post-communist states have adopted minority rights legislation based on similar principles.

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Estonia: A Model for Inter-War Europe?

Smith

2015

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“…Even today, despite tremendous centralization since the 1960s (Kincaid ), the United States ranks third highest for regional authority among the seven federations scored on the regional authority index (Hooghe et al. ) and is the world's ninth most decentralized country (with Switzerland being the only federation more decentralized than the United States) according to the World Bank (Ivanyna and Shah ).…”

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Territorial Neutrality and Cultural Pluralism in American Federalism: Is the United States the Archenemy of Peripheral Nationalism?

Kincaid

2016

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This study examines accommodations of 'national' minorities in the context of territorial neutrality and territorial democracy in American federalism and critiques Kymlicka's criticism of the United States as the foe of peripheral nationalism. Aside from the imagined nationalism of the white American South, peripheral nationalism has not been politically viable in the United States. Territorial democracy permitted territorially based cultural pluralism that facilitated immigrant assimilation while asymmetrical territorial governance arrangements accommodated 'national' minorities not necessarily desiring statehood. Secession, therefore, is not a credible threat in American federalism.

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“…The figures below compare Flanders, the French-speaking and German communities and the Walloon and Brussels Capital regions to the 14 west European members of the European Union (the EU member states before the enlargement of 2002), three well-established non-European federations (Australia, Canada and the US) and a confederation, Switzerland. The data, like previously, comes from the study by Hooghe et al (2008c). Figure 2 below compares the aggregated regional authority index of Belgium to that of the 14 western members of the European Union, three non-EU federations and Switzerland.…”

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“…The next section compares the levels of fiscal autonomy of the Belgian regions to those of the other regions presented above. It also compares the data produced by Hooghe et al (2008c) to OECD data, which is a widely used indicator of revenue and tax distribution in federal states. C a n to n s ( C H )…”

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Belgian Federalism in a Comparative Perspective

Fabre

2009

SSRN Journal

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De Belgische institutionele staatsstructuur is sinds de jaren vijftig grondig gewijzigd. Van een unitaire staat, opgedeeld in provincies, is België uitgegroeid tot een volwaardige federatie.België is evenwel een zeer specifieke federatie, die zowel territoriale als nietterritoriale federale beginselen vermengt. De Gewesten worden namelijk gedefinieerd op basis van het territoriale principe (Vlaanderen, Brussel en Wallonië), de Gemeenschappen daarentegen op basis van de taalgroep (Frans, Nederlands of Duits). Dat leidt tot institutionele asymmetrie: o Vlaanderen en Wallonië zijn ééntalige gebieden, terwijl Brussel tweetalig is; o Wallonië omvat de meerderheid van de Franstalige bevolking maar ook de Duitstalige bevolking; o De Franstalige Gemeenschap is bevoegd voor het Franstalige deel van Wallonië en de Franstalige bevolking van Brussel; o

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Appendix B: Country and Regional Scores

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Estonia: A Model for Inter-War Europe?

Estonia: A Model for Inter-War Europe?

Territorial Neutrality and Cultural Pluralism in American Federalism: Is the United States the Archenemy of Peripheral Nationalism?

Belgian Federalism in a Comparative Perspective

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