Wimmer Andreas Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart 9780691202945

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Автор: Wimmer Andreas
Название: Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
ISBN: 9780691202945
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Социальная и политическая философия

Социология

Политика и политический строй

Национализм

ISBN-10: 069120294X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 376
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 28.04.2020
Серия: Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 18 b/w illus., 44 tables
Размер: 156 x 235 x 30
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: Why some countries come together while others fall apart
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building

Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity.

Using datasets that cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmers theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic assimilation, and the states capacity to provide public goods. Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries.

Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration.

Offering a long-term historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds important new light on the challenges of political integration in diverse countries.

Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, Wimmer Andreas