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Ethnofederalism: The Worst Form of Institutional Arrangement…?

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Summary

Critics of ethnofederalism— a political system in which federal subunits reflect ethnic groups’ territorial distribution—argue that it facilitates secession and state collapse. An examination of post-1945 ethnofederal states, however, shows that ethnofederalism has succeeded more often than not.

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Anderson, Liam. “Ethnofederalism: The Worst Form of Institutional Arrangement…?.” Summer 2014

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