Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan [Paperback]

Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the role of religion. Adeney examines the extent to which previous constitutional choices explain current day conflicts.Comparative Federalism and Ethnic Conflict:?A Theoretical Examination * Federal Plans in Pre-independence India * The Federal Problem in South Asia: Institutional Design before Partition * Partition: Differences in Federal Design * Federal Segregation or Multiculturalism? * Federal (in)Stability in India * Federal (in)Stability?in Pakistan * Future Prospects for India and Pakistan and Lessons for Ethnically Divided Societies

Katharine Adeney's book sets a new standard in the literature on comparative federalism and South Asian studies...The book's impressive empirical underpinnings will be invaluable in predicting the expected levels of federal stability in India and Pakistan. - Lawrence Saez, Political Studies Review

This book breaks new ground . . . Adeney's conclusions are particularly instructive to both practitioners and federalism think-tanks currently contemplating the institutionalisation of federalism in states like Sri Lanka, Iraq, Nepal and Afghanistan. - Contemporary South Asia

Katharine Adeney has written a book of exceptional analytical clarity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this study moves beyond the tired clich?s that have afflicted much of the comparative scholarship on India and Pakistan. Explaining why federal structures are sometimes able to manage diversity (and sometimes not), Adeney provides an original and historically informed account of institutions as both cause and effect - as a reflection of social realities as well as key determinants of political behavior. This is a book of significance well beyond South Asian studies. - Robert Jenkins, Professor of Politl“8