South Tyrol's changing political system

From dissociative on the road to associative conflict resolution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11047423
AutoresGünther Pallaver (0000-0002-4388-7858, Universität Innsbruck, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas376-398
Fecha de publicación2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2013.856393
OpenAlexW2000737347
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas23

South Tyrol (Italy), with its three officially recognized language groups (Germans, Italians and Ladins), is a successful model of how a minority problem can be solved. It is based upon the principle of dissociative conflict resolution, which means separating the language groups as much as possible between themselves, as well as the principle of consociational democracy, which focuses primarily on the cooperation between the language groups’ elites. In the last few years it has been observed that while the institutional frame has not changed, society has, thereby starting to undermine the existing political and institutional system from below. This concerns mainly the ethnic division, which is being questioned more and more by civil society, as well as aspects of cooperation between the elites. As a consequence of this process, South Tyrol's autonomy is moving toward further integration, with the latter again translating into strengthening the two factors of territoriality and identity

Autonomy · Civil society · Collective identity · Conflict resolution · Democracy · Ethnic group · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Territoriality · Central European national history · Law · Minority Rights and Languages · Political Systems and Governance