Beyond International Conditionality: Local Variations of Minority Representation in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Cover -- Effective participation of minorities in public affairs and public life - European norms and praxis evaluated in light of the Lund Recommendations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ordinary participation as the starting point -- 3. Obligation of the State to Ensure Effective Participation -- 4. Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life as a Background -- 5. Participation in the Governance of the State as a Whole -- 5.1. Arrangements at the Level of the Central Government -- 5.2. Elections -- 5.3. Arrangements at the Regional and Local Levels -- 5.4. Advisory and Consultative Bodies -- 6. Self-Governance over Certain Local or Internal Affairs -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Non-Territorial Arrangements -- 6.3. Territorial Arrangements -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- European integration and minority rights conditionality policy -- European integration and minority issues -- Conditionality policy and international norms on minority rights -- Norm diffusion - limits and potentials of international standards on minority rights -- Double standards and effective conditionality: non-discrimination and minority specific rights -- European Union enlargement policy and specific minority rights -- European Union minority protection conditionality to South-Eastern European states -- Measuring the impact of EU enlargement -- Conclusions -- The rights of national minorities in Croatia: Beyond European conditionality? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nationalism vs. European conditionality -- 3. National Minority Rights. Basic principles -- 4. Linguistic and cultural rights -- 5. Political rights -- 6. European conditionality and minority rights in Croatia. From (lack of) implementation to compliance? -- 7. Final remarks