POL 2104 Chapter Notes -Democratic Consolidation, Individual And Group Rights, Yogendra Yadav

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2104
• Professor: Dominique Arel

Document Summary

Comparative theory and political science: do we need a state-nation model as well as a. Alfred stepan, juan j. linz, and yogendra yadav. Old wisdom holds that the territorial boundaries of a state must coincide with the perceived cultural boundaries of a nation. This understanding requires that every state must contain within itself one and not more than one culturally homogeneous nation. That every state should be a nation, and that every nation should be a state. However, many states in the world today do not conform to this expectation. Nation-state policies stand for a political-institutional approach that attempts to match the political boundaries of the state with the presumed cultural boundaries of the nation, or vice versa. The creation of nation-state involves privileging one sociocultural identity over other potential or actual sociocultural cleavages that can be politically mobilized. State-nation policies stand for a political-institutional approach that respects and protects multiple but complementary sociocultural identities.