In this book, political scientists provide a collaborative study of multinational democracies and the difficulties in governing them.

Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural div

In the contemporary world, there are many democratic states whose minority nations have pushed for constitutional reform, greater autonomy, and asymmetric feder

The importance of research on the notion of trust has grown considerably in the social sciences over the last three decades. Much has been said about the declin

Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- det