Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles: Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec

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There is not any one-size-fits-all decentralized fix to deeply divided and conflict-ridden states. One of the most hotly debated policy prescriptions for states facing self-determination demands is some type of decentralized governance – including regional autonomy arrangements and federalism – which grants minority groups a degree of self-rule. Yet the track record of existing decentralized states suggests that these have widely divergent capacity to contain conflicts within their borders. Through in-depth case studies of Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec, in addition to a statistical cross-country analysis, this book argues that even as policy, fiscal, and political decentralization can, indeed, be peace-preserving from time to time, the effects of these institutions are conditioned by traits of the societies they (are supposed to) govern. Decentralization might assist preserve peace in one country or in one region, but it is going to have just the opposite effect in a country or region with different ethnic and economic characteristics.

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