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

ISBN 10: 1316619389 / ISBN 13: 9781316619384

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions (Law in Context)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316619389
• ISBN 13: 9781316619384
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.