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Decentralization in Kosovo: Defusing Ethnic Tensions or Furthering Ethnic Isolation?

In: Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe

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  • Lars Burema

    (European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI))

Abstract

Advocates of decentralization have long maintained that it can be used as a mechanism for defusing inter-ethnic tension. Where successful, it creates cohesive multi-ethnic societies by giving communities extensive rights over the issues affecting their daily lives — for example, language, education, local administration — but avoids the disintegrative effects of separatism by allowing the state to retain control over national questions such as security and foreign affairs (Lijphart, 1977, 1996; Tsebelis, 1990; Horowitz, 1991a; Kaufman, 1996; Stepan, 1999; Gurr, 2000; Lustik, Miodownik and Eidelson, 2004). For example, Finland’s Åland Islands have experienced a large degree of autonomy since 1920, successfully balancing the demands for minority rights of the Åland Islands’ mostly Swedish population and the interests of the Finnish state.2

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  • Lars Burema, 2013. "Decentralization in Kosovo: Defusing Ethnic Tensions or Furthering Ethnic Isolation?," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Will Bartlett & Sanja Maleković & Vassilis Monastiriotis (ed.), Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe, chapter 6, pages 100-117, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-1-137-29565-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137295651_6
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