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Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions (Law in Context) - Softcover

Book 36 of 82: Law in Context
 
9781316619384: Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions (Law in Context)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1316619389 ISBN 13: 9781316619384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being.

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About the Authors

Yash Ghai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Katiba Institute, Nairobi. He is a world renowned expert and for the past 30 years has been deeply involved in the study of autonomy systems.

Sophia Woodman is faculty member of the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. She is a sociologist who studies Chinese politics, including the politics of autonomy and minorities in contemporary China.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1316619389
ISBN 13 
9781316619384
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
516
Editor
Ghai Yash, Woodman Sophia