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This landmark study in the field of comparative politics is being celebrated for its return to print as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Politics in Plural Societiespresents a model of political competition in multi-ethnic societies and explains why plural societies, and the struggle for power within them, often erupt with inter-ethnic hostility. Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate in a new epilogue the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.

Alvin Rabushka is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University. His principle work focuses on tax policy. He is co-author, with Robert E. Hall, of The Flat Tax, 2^nd edition (Hoover Press, 1995). His work on the flat tax has provided the inspiration for the introduction of numerous flat-tax bills in the U.S. Congress and the adoption of the flat tax in more than a dozen countries, largely in Central and Eastern Europe, since 1994.

Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government and a founding member of The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. Professor Shepsle has written numerous articles on formal political theory, congressional and parliamentary politics, public policy, and political economy. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was editor of Public Choice, and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association. In 1990 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was chair of the Department of Government at Harvard, 1995-98. His current research focuses on formal models of political institutions and intergenerational politics.

	p. 1
The Plural Society	p. 2
Bases of Cultural Pluralism	p. 8
The Theory of Plural Society: J. S. Furnivall	p. 10
The Theory of Plural Society: Conceptual Development	p. 12
A Definition of Plural Society	p. 20
Summary	p. 21
Theoretical Tools	p. 23
Politics and Preference Aggregation	p. 24
Utility and the Risk Environment	p. 32
Intensity	p. 43
Salience	p. 55
Summary	p. 61
Distinctive Features of Politics in the Plural Society: A Paradigm	p. 62
Ethnic Preferences	p. 63
A Paradigm of Politics in the Plural Society	p. 74
Plural Societies: Some Variations	p. 88
Summary	p. 91
	p. 93
The Competitive Configuration	p. 94
Guyana	p. 95
Belgium	p. 105
Ethnic Politics in Trinidad and Malaya	p. 120
Ethnic Competition: The Politics of Demand Generation and the Bankruptcy of Moderation	p. 124
Ethnic Advantage: The Manipulation of Electoral Rules	p. 127
The Paradigm and Surinam: A Prognosis	p. 127
Majority Domination	p. 129
Ceylon	p. 129
Majority Dominance: Five Additional Cases	p. 141
Nationalist Politics: The Absence of Interethnic Cooperation	p. 143
The Ethnic Basis of Political Cohesion	p. 147
Ambiguity, Moderation, and the Politics of Outbidding	p. 150
Machinations: The Manipulation of Ethnic Politics	p. 153
Violence: Communities in Conflict	p. 156
The Dominant Minority	p. 158
South Africa	p. 158
Rhodesia	p. 169
Burundi	p. 173
Fragmentation	p. 177
Properties of Fragmented Societies	p. 177
Fragmentation: The Proliferation of Ethnic Groups	p. 178
Political Parties: The Absence of Brokerage Institutions	p. 187
Authoritarian Rule: The Fragility of Democracy	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 206
Conclusions	p. 207
Switzerland: The Persistent Counterexample	p. 208
(R[subscript x]) Prescriptions for the Plural Society: Some Applications of the Theory	p. 213
A Final Question	p. 217
Epilogue	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 255
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Politics in Plural Societies A Theory of Democratic Instability (Longman Classics Edition)

Politics in Plural Societies A Theory of Democratic Instability (Longman Classics Edition)

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