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Democratization and Ethnic Conflict: Issues, Strategies, Outcomes

by Ted Robert Gurr

May 1995

Paper for the Project on Democratization and Political Participation in Post-Communist Societies, U.S. Department of State, May 1995. Briefly assesses the challenge of ethnopolitics in post-Communist societies and distinguishes alternative strategies for contention and accommodation available to ethnopolitical leaders and state elites.