Crafting State Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies

by Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan, Yogendra Yadav

Book Overview

Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within a country while maintaining national political coherence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801897246
• ISBN13: 9780801897245
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"