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Since the 1960s, several dozen ethnoregional parties have achieved political success in advanced industrial democracies. Focus here is on their ideological characteristics, how these characteristics correlate with electoral & policy success, & what ideological trends are emerging among newer parties. Adapted from the source document.

SEVERAL ETHNOREGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES ACHIEVED DRAMATIC ELECTORAL SUCCESSES IN INDUSTRIALIZE DEMOCRACIES IN THE 1960S AND 1970S. SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND PROMINENT OF THESE PARTIES WERE THE BELGIAN ETHNOREGIONAL PARTIES, THE VOLKSUNIE (VU) IN FLANDERS, THE RASSEMBLEMENT WALLON (RW) IN WALLONIA, AND THE FRONT DEMOCRATIQUE DES FRANCOPHONES (FDF) IN BRUSSELS. THESE THREE PARTIES HAVE DECLINED DRAMATICALLY SINCE THE LATE 1970S. ALTHOUGH THEY APPEAR TO BE ELECTORAL FAILURES THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED IMPRESSIVE POLICY SUCCESSES. THE MAJOR BELGIAN PARTIES HAD ALWAYS BEEN SKEPTICAL OF THE ETHNOREGIONAL PARTIES' PROPOSALS FOR THE FEDERALIZATION OF THE CENTRALIZED STATE. YET, IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE ELECTORAL DECLINE OF THE ETHNOREGIONAL PARTIES, BELGIUM HAS FEDERALIZED. SURVEY DATA AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ARE USED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ELECTORAL FAILURES AND POLICY SUCCESSES OF THE ETHNOREGIONAL PARTIES IN BELGIUM. THE CONCLUSION GENERALIZES FORM THE BELGIAN CASES TO THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF OTHER ETHNOREGIONAL PARTIES IN STABLE DEMOCRACIES.

Social psychologists have much to teach us about why groups of people attempt to exterminate other groups, why people participate in such atrocious projects, and how they live with themselves afterwards. By bringing together social psychological research on genocide previously available only to readers of academic journals, this volume sheds crucial light on human behavior at the extremes and in doing so, helps us take one more step towards preventing future tragedies.

"Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia InquirerIn No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city workers and job seekers for two yearsin Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians--the working poor.The working poor find dignity in earning a paycheck and shunning the welfare system, arguing that even low-paying jobs give order to their lives. No Shame in My Game gives voice to a misrepresented segment of today's society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working and welfare.From the Trade Paperback edition.