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Akademische Forschung über den Schutz von nationalen Minderheiten beginnt und endet häufig mit einer ländervergleichenden Analyse des rechtlichen Rahmens. Sehr oft ist es jedoch die Umsetzung der gesetzlichen Regelungen durch Verwaltungsbehörden und Gerichte, die sich als sehr problematisch erweist.Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die Diskrepanz zwischen geschriebenem Recht und der praktischen Umsetzung. Untersucht wird der Schutz von Minderheiten in sechs mittel- und südosteuropäischen Ländern aus vergleichender Perspektive

Whether federalism and subnational constitutions contribute to or undermine minority rights has long been a subject of controversy. Within the United States, the general view has been that federalism has been detrimental to minority rights. In contrast, other countries have seen federalism as crucial in safeguarding rights of ethnic and religious minorities. This volume provides the basis for a more nuanced assessment of the contributions of federalism and subnational constitutions to protecting minority rights by studying their impact in a variety of federal systems.||This work explores both

This book focuses on trend-setting judgments in different parts of the world that impacted on the rights of persons belonging to minorities and Indigenous people. The cases illustrate how the judiciary has been called upon to fill out the detail of minority protection arrangements and how, in doing so, in many instances the judiciary has taken the respective countries on a course that parliament may not have been able to navigate. In this book authors from various backgrounds in the practical application of minority protection arrangements investigate the role of the judiciary in constitutional arrangements aimed at the protection of the rights of minorities and Indigenous peoples

"Globalisation, migration, and (de-)secularisation have fundamentally transformed the concepts of religion, state, and law during the last decades. The main goal of this interdisciplinary approach is to clarify the multifaceted theoretical and practical challenges of religious diversity and socio-political pluralism in Europe. In twenty-two chapters, the contributions to this volume revisit basic concepts, structures and institutional settings such as sovereignty, the dogma of the separation of state, church and/or religion; human and minority rights; gender and religion; varieties of fundamentalisms, interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding and, not least, religious education"--