Chapter 17. South Tyrol’s Consociational Democracy: between Political Claim and Social Reality

Pallaver, Günther

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“…Catholicism is the most important cross‐cutting cleavage. It is a socially prominent characteristic of all three linguistic groups, and cooperation between the SVP and its Italian‐language coalition partner during the most important period in the development of the autonomy arrangement, the Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democrats), was facilitated by a shared commitment to Christian democracy and anti‐communism (Pallaver : 305). Furthermore, the strong desire of both German‐ and Italian‐speaking elites to avoid escalating the conflict after the Second World War, and the less violent character of the conflict in comparison to other divided territories, encouraged pragmatic compromise on both sides (Pallaver : 386).…”

Section: The Silver Lining: Power‐sharing's Potential To Transform Comentioning

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Larin

Röggla

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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South Tyrol is an autonomous, predominantly German‐speaking province in Italy, and one of the most successful cases of power‐sharing in the world. Nevertheless, the Province recently conducted a participatory‐democratic process known as the ‘Autonomy Convention’ to debate and draft a proposal for revising the 1972 Autonomy Statute. It is the first such process with the stated intent of amending a power‐sharing arrangement, and our research questions are whether this represents a new type of consociational negotiation, and what made it possible. The answer to the first question is ‘no’, and the Convention is best seen as a ‘participatory‐ish consultation’ which had no formal power. But the problems that it faced, and the fact that it occurred at all, are evidence of consociational democracy's potential to transform conflicts. The Convention, we argue, is the result of ‘normal’, not ‘ethnic’ politics, and two generations of successful power‐sharing made that possible by desecuritising the relationship between South Tyrol's three official linguistic groups.

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Section: The Silver Lining: Power‐sharing's Potential To Transform Comentioning

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Larin

Röggla

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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“…26 Each language group has created its own separate structures, such as trade unions, political parties, associations and mass media, thereby limiting social contact between the groups. 27 Moreover, some scholars highlight that the groups enjoying autonomy in South Tyrol no longer match the changing demography of the territory. The Statute of Autonomy does not take into account the increasing number of bi-or multi-lingually-raised people (an estimated 25,000 to 35,000 people); 28 nor the growing number of migrants, who in 2016 constituted 8.9% of the province's population.…”

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Transforming a Controversial Heritage: The Case of the Fascist Victory Monument in South Tyrol

Carlà

Mitterhofer

2018

Auc Studia Territorialia

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Using a Fascist monument in South Tyrol, Northern Italy as a case study, this paper investigates the role of monuments in managing and negotiating interpretations of the past in culturally heterogeneous societies. It explores approaches to overcoming the exclusionary potential of cultural heritage, reframing it in more inclusive, pluralist terms. It provides an in-depth analysis of a dialogical, pluralistic approach to heritage, which allows divergent, even contrary, interpretations of the past to coexist. Thus, the paper sheds light on how monuments (re)construct and contest memory and history. It provides insights into constructive ways of engaging with a controversial heritage in multiethnic societies.

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“…However, Günther Pallaver differentiates between the political elite, keen to keep separation alive, and a very active civil society which demands a blurring of the boundaries between the linguistic groups. Thus he and Baur, von Guggenberg, and Larcher claim, that ‘the aim of creating a multicultural society that considers multi‐linguistic cohabitation to be a high democratic value derives firstly from the initiative of individuals and groups, who organize themselves in interethnic or ethnically indifferently initiatives and social, cultural and economic projects’ (Pallaver :259, quoting Baur, von Guggenberg, and Larcher ).…”

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“…For detailed information on the South Tyrolean Autonomy Statute, see Woelk et al. () and in particular the critical assessment of Pallaver ().…”

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Identity Politics in the Educational System in South Tyrol: Balancing between Minority Protection and the Need to Manage Diversity

Wisthaler

2013

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This article focuses on the educational system in South Tyrol as one of the pillars of language and identity politics used for minority protection and elaborates on possible future developments triggered by immigration. After a historical overview of the coexistence of the three linguistic groups in South Tyrol, the article will explore, from the perspective of the educational system, the institutional framework guaranteeing the protection of the German-speaking and Ladin minority and in particular their languages as the most important markers of the particular local identities. The article then examines how the educational system in South Tyrol deals with increasing immigration, assessing the strengths and weaknesses in relation to whether the educational system facilitates, on the one hand, the development of a multilingual society and, on the other, individual language competences and thus individual multilingualism.

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Chapter 17. South Tyrol’s Consociational Democracy: between Political Claim and Social Reality

Cited by 9 publications

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Transforming a Controversial Heritage: The Case of the Fascist Victory Monument in South Tyrol

Identity Politics in the Educational System in South Tyrol: Balancing between Minority Protection and the Need to Manage Diversity

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