1 Comparative Theory and Political Practice: Do We Need a ‘‘State-Nation’’ Model as Well as a ‘‘Nation-State’’ Model?

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Keyword(s):  
State Model ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Comparative Theory

Comparative Theory and Political Practice: Do We Need a ‘State-Nation’ Model as Well as a ‘Nation-State’ Model?

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Stepan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Matched Pair ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Type I ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Comparative Theory

AbstractSome polities have strong cultural diversity, some of which is territorially based and politically articulated by significant groups that, in the name of nationalism, and self-determination, advance claims for independence. In this article such polities are defined as ‘politically robustly multinational’. If the goal is peace and democracy in one state in such a polity, this article advances theoretical and empirical arguments to show that ideal typical ‘nation-state’ making policies are less appropriate than policies associated with new ideal type I construct called ‘state-nation’. Countries discussed are Spain, Belgium, and Canada and the ‘matched pair’ of successful Tamil political integration via state nation policies in India, and failed Tamil political integration due to nation-state policies in Sri Lanka.

India and the Nation-State Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
Debtanu Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
State Model ◽  
Nation State

India was pushed to call itself a nation to achieve independence from British. Although many still try to identify possible nationalities inside India, it is forgotten that nation is a very recent phenomenon with its root in Biblical traditions. Through the diverse voices that conceptualized a free India during colonial times, it becomes clear that Indians did not try to make a nation and sometimes actively abhorred the European conception of race as nations. They rather saw and described India using markers from the civilization itself.

Language and Nation: For a Cultural Renewal of India

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
State Model ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Pluralist Approach

West European nation-states which emerged after the Treaty of West Phalia concluded in 1648 were established based on the maxim: one nation, one (official language). But this principle and policy are inappropriate for multinational and ployglot polities. And yet, the tendency to imitate the nation-state model persists all over the world. The inherent inappropriateness of this model is unfolded through an examinationof the linguistic situation and language policy in India. After locating the deficits in the three approaches advocated in India-traditionalist, nationalist and modernist-the pluralist approach is put forward as a viable and democratic alternative for a cultural renewal of India. This approach, it is argued, will facilitate the programme of eradication of illiteracy, project of participatory development and the process of socio-political transformation all of which are pre-requisites for cultural renewal.

Migration, Membership, and the Modern Nation-State: Internal and External Dimensions of the Politics of Belonging

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogers Brubaker
Keyword(s):  
State Model ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Modern Nation State

The politics of belonging—political struggles about the membership status of populations both within and outside the geographical confines of particular nation-states—derive from four conditions: (1) the migration of borders over people, (2) the deep and enduring inequalities between mainstream and minority populations, (3) the persisting legacies of empire, and (4) the migration of people over borders. New forms of external membership represent an extension and adaptation of the nation-state model, not its transcendence.

The War of “Who Is Who”: Autochthony, Nationalism, and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Marshall-Fratani
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
The West ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ways Of Life

Abstract:Over the past four years the Ivoirian crisis has seen as its central dynamic the mobilization of the categories of autochthony and territorialized belonging in an ultranationalist discourse vehicled by the party in power. More than just a struggle to the death for state power, the conflict involves the redefinition of the content of citizenship and the conditions of sovereignty. The explosion of violence and counterviolence provoked and legitimated by the mobilization of these categories does not necessarily signify either the triumph of those monolithic identities “engineered” during the colonial occupation, nor the disintegration of the nation-state in the context of globalization. The Ivoirian case shows the continued vitality of the nation-state: not only as the principal space in terms of which discourses of authochtony are constructed, but also in terms of the techniques and categories that the political practice of autochthony puts into play. While in some senses the Ivoirian conflict appears to be a war without borders—in particular with the “spillover” of the Liberian war in the west during 2003—it is above all a war about borders, crystallizing in liminal spaces and social categories and on emerging practices and ways of life.

scholarly journals ‘At the point of confluence of sociology and Indology’: Louis Dumont’s postulate reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-387
Author(s):  
Axel Michaels
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
State Model ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The 19Th Century

In this article, I aim to show how Louis Dumont’s famous claim that ‘the condition for a sound development of Sociology of India is found in the establishment of the proper relation between it and classical Indology’ has become obsolete and was from the beginning a problematic postulate. I first develop the historical background of the denigration of anthropological approaches in India against the rise of an idealising Indology as a philological discipline. Then I discuss the structural, methodological and ideological problems that made it difficult to follow Dumont’s advice to search for the point of confluence of sociology and Indology. Finally, I place Dumont’s holistic approach in relation to the holistic structure of academic disciplines that emerged in the 19th century on the basis of the nation-state model and argue that it is misleading and reductive to think that ‘the construction of an Indian Sociology rests in part upon the existence of Indology’.

scholarly journals Discourse critical analysis of the Dictatorship educational policy (1967-1974) about the Greek-speaking education of the Greeks abroad

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evaggelia Kalerante
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Greek Population ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Political Structures

<h1> </h1><h1>The present paper is concerned with the Dictatorship legislative texts (1967-1974) related to issues about the Greek-speaking education of the Greeks abroad.</h1><p> </p><h1>The legislative texts about education are presented as discourse in which the cultural and political practice is articulated; and is also composed by other cultural and political practices conducive to its dialectic association with other dimensions of society. The critical analysis of the Dictatorship legislative texts focuses on the discourse verbal practices and the ideological scenario. Thus, an attempt is made to depict: a) discourse practices and b) broader social and political structures and standpoints in the legislation which are related to the broader theoretical frameworks of the democratic regime and, particularly, special issues about the nation-state definition.</h1><p> </p><h1>The fact that should definitely be made obvious is how the discourse practices in legislation are conducive to the reproduction of political-educational standpoints of the Greek nation-state in association with the Greek population abroad on the basis of a broader political framework of dictatorship. Norman Fairclough’s discourse critical analysis was chosen because there is interest in: the linguistic characteristics of the text and how they are attuned to the regime’s political practice. Therefore, throughout the discourse educational levels, in which legislation is introduced, the regime’s structure of ideology is elevated.</h1><p> </p>

Europe Needs Principles, Not Pragmatism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Model ◽  
Nation State ◽  
European Institutions ◽  
European Democracy ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
The One ◽  
German Federal Constitutional

This chapter examines the question of European statehood, arguing that what is needed is not pragmatism but greater orientation to principles and more explanations of consequences. It first considers the EU’s ultimate goal: whether it should become the United States of Europe or whether it should remain a community of Member States who unite for specific purposes in areas that they can better address unitedly than separately. It then explains how the transformation of European institutions in accordance with a nation-state model would lead towards a European state, suggesting that one cannot transform the EU’s institutional structure on the nation-state model and at the same time defer to a later date the question of European statehood. It also considers the German Federal Constitutional Court’s role in bridging the scope of EU powers and the autonomy of European decision-making on the one hand, and European democracy on the other.

Rise and Fall of the Golden-Age Nation State Model

2008 ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Jochen Zimmermann ◽  
Jörg R. Werner ◽  
Philipp B. Volmer
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
State Model ◽  
Nation State
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