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Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights

Hungarians in Transylvania

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Investigates different aspects of the social organization of minority communities
  • Contributes to the study of minority politics and ethnic demographics in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Offers pioneering observations concerning the dynamic of minority boundary maintenance and assimilation

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Minority Rights Regime and Political Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining

      • Tamás Kiss, Tibor Toró, István Gergő Székely
      Pages 71-165
    3. Language Use, Language Policy, and Language Rights

      • István Horváth, Tibor Toró
      Pages 167-223
  3. Ethnic Parallelism: Political Program and Social Reality—Ethnically and Non-ethnically Integrated Social Fields

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
    2. Hungarian-Language Education: Legal Framework, Institutional Structure and Assessment of School Performances

      • Attila Z. Papp, János Márton, István Gergő Székely, Gergő Barna
      Pages 249-292
    3. Churches and Religious Life

      • Dénes Kiss
      Pages 293-316
    4. Economy and Ethnicity in Transylvania

      • Zsombor Csata
      Pages 345-379
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 501-545

About this book

This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority elites and Romania's minority policy regime on the one hand, and social processes such as ethnic boundary making and ethnic stratification on the other.

The chapters combine perspectives from a variety of disciplines including political science and the sociology of ethnic relations, supported by the findings of  a broad array of empirical investigations carried out in Transylvania. It will therefore be of particular interest to scholars and students with a focus on minority politics, ethnic mobilization and nationalism, as well as researchers of ethnic relations, ethnic boundary making, social distances and ethnic inequalities. 

 


Reviews

“In this superb case study about political and social transformations affecting the Hungarian minority population in Transylvania since 1989, Tamás Kiss and his co-authors offer a comprehensive and finely drawn analysis of the Romanian model of interethnic relations.  Based on a wealth of original empirical research, the authors articulate arguments of theoretical and comparative significance about the possibilities and limitations of democratic minority agency under regimes of “unequal accommodation.”’ (Zsuzsa Csergő, Associate Professor and Head of Political Studies, Queen’s University, USA, and President, Association for the Study of Nationalities, ASN)

“This book provides a theoretically-informed, comprehensive account of the Hungarian lived space in Romania – including material previously unavailable in English. It covers the formal and informal political institutions that give life to minority rights and claims, as well as ethnic parallelism in everyday life: in language,religion, media, and the economy. It also provides a convincing account of ways in which community boundaries are incrementally reinforced. It is an academic tour de force.” (Sherrill Stroschein, Reader in Politics, University College London, UK)

“This is the definitive book on the “Romanian model” of inter-ethnic relations and its impact on Hungarian minority political agency and mobilization. Theoretically-compelling and empirically-rich, this study brings much needed insight to the factors that shape national minorities’ struggles to make claims and maintain their communities.  A great resource for scholars of ethnic and minority politics in Europe and elsewhere.” (Myra Waterbury, Associate Professor, Ohio University, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Tamás Kiss, István Gergő Székely, István Horváth

  • International Relations and European Studies Department, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Tibor Toró

  • Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Nándor Bárdi

About the editors

Tamás Kiss is Research Fellow, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Romania.

István Gergő Székely is Research Fellow, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Romania.

Tibor Toró is Assistant Professor at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and Researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Romania.

Nándor Bárdi is Head of Research Department and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary. 

István Horváth is President, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Romania.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights

  • Book Subtitle: Hungarians in Transylvania

  • Editors: Tamás Kiss, István Gergő Székely, Tibor Toró , Nándor Bárdi, István Horváth

  • Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78893-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78892-0Published: 14 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07673-3Published: 29 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78893-7Published: 31 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6100

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 545

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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