William Safran
Biographic Data
| ID | 582062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Safran |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Safran |
| SIGNATURE | SAFRAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1000 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Ideology and Politics: The Socialist Party of France
This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the French Socialist party—its history, ideology, organization, and constituency—as well as the reasons the party has remained a viable force in the French political system for over seventy years.
The contributions of Jean A. Laponce to political science
Jean A. Laponce contributed significantly to the study of political science, particularly in the fields of French and comparative politics, pluralism, the meaning of right and left, and the politics of ethnicity and language. His most influential writings focused on the politics of multilingual societies. He examined the place of language from three perspectives: the territorial imperative—a bounded formal space providing safety and dominance for…
Language, Ethnic Identity and the State
Transnational Migrations: The Indian Diaspora
This book studies Indian diaspora, currenlty 20 million across the world, from various perspectives. It looks at the 'transnational' nature of the middle class worker. Other aspects include: post 9/11 challenges; ethnicity in USA; cultural identity versus national identity; gender issues amongst the diaspora communities. It argues that Indian middle classes have the unique advantages of skills, mobility, cultural rootedness and ethics of hard-wor…
Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China
Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict
Nation-Building, Collective Identity, and Language Choices: Between Instrumental and Value Rationalities
The discussion of the place of language in politics has generally revolved around its relationship to nation-building and ethnic conflict. Yet, these are not always causally connected nor is language easily given up for the sake of a greater national or individual good. Attitudes regarding language can be influenced by anticolonialist resentments, memories of past injustice, status paranoia, xenophobia, collective megalomania, religion, ideology,…
Vilne: Die Juden aus Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. Eine transnationale Beziehungsgeschichte. Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung, Vol. 20
Diasporas in the contemporary world
Diasporas in the contemporary world, by Milton Esman, Cambridge and Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2009, vi + 210 pp., £50.00/$59.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7456-4496-7; £14.99/$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9
The Catch-All Party Revisited: Reflections of a Kirchheimer Student
This article aims to do the following: reflect upon the life, experiences, ideas and teaching of Kirchheimer from the perspective of the author, his first dissertation advisee at Columbia University and one of his last students; discuss some of his major political observations and arguments; and consider their relevance today
Names, Labels, and Identities: Sociopolitical Contexts and the Question of Ethnic Categorization
This article addresses a relatively unexplored topic: the meaning and use of names and labels for ethnies and nations. It has been said (by Anthony Smith and others) that a nation is a “named” ethnic community. In the same sense, an ethnie is a “named” categoric group. The labeling of an ethnic or national categoric group by the group is often a self-conscious political act of identification reflecting its image and self-image and serving a varie…
Language, ethnicity and religion: A Complex and Persistent Linkage
Among the markers of ethnonational identity, language and religion have figured with equal prominence. In many cases, religion has been the bedrock of nation‐building; and even today, it is difficult to separate a number of national identities from their religious matrices. Religious identity is based on, and perpetuated in, narratives expressed in a specific language. Language and religion are related; in our secular age, however, that relations…
Indian Diaspora in Transnational Contexts: Introduction
Peer-reviewed
Public Opinion as a Constraint against War: Democracies' Responses to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Journal Article Public Opinion as a Constraint against War: Democracies' Responses to Operation Iraqi Freedom Get access Steve Chan, Steve Chan University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Safran William Safran University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2006, Pages 137–156, https://doi.o…
The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective William Safran (bio) For many generations, the phenomenon of Diaspora was dealt with only in connection with the Jews. Thus, the entry on "Diaspora" in the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences published in 1937 was by Simon Dubnow, the prominent scholar of Jewish history.1 With few exceptions, political scientists and historians ignored it, including those who focused on nationalism…
Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives
Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives. By Judith G. Kelley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 264p. $35.00. The subject of this study by Judith Kelley is the international factor in ethnic minority politics—the role of external institutions and norms in the democratic development of several countries and the policies regarding their ethnic minorities. These institutions, more specifically the European Union, the …
Language and nation-building in Israel: Hebrew and its rivals
The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion and Politics
Introduction: The Political Aspects of Language
Language is a marker of ethnic identity; a vehicle for expressing a distinct culture; a source of national cohesion; and an instrument for building political community. Yet the relationship between
Ethnoreligious Politics in France: Jews and Muslims
This article focuses on the relationship between the two major ethnoreligious communities – the Jews and the Muslims – and the state in France, as reflected in lobbying, electoral behaviour, and public policies. It shows how the evolution of that relationship, an aspect of the politics of ethnicity, religion and multiculturalism, has been both a cause and a consequence of modifications in approaches to secularism, communitarianism and affirmative…
Pluralism and Multiculturalism in France: Post-Jacobin Transformations
Journal Article Pluralism and Multiculturalism in France: Post-Jacobin Transformations Get access William Safran William Safran WILLIAM SAFRAN is professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His most recent books include The French Polity (6th ed.); Politics In Europe (3rd ed., coauthor); The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion, and Politics; and Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (coedited, with …
Recent French Conceptualizations of Diaspora
Diaspora 12:3 2003 Recent French Conceptualizations of Diaspora William Safran University of Colorado at Boulder Les Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix. Paris: Que sais-je, Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. This book by sociologist Stéphane Dufoix is a tour d’horizon of the state of contemporary scholarship concerning diasporas. It ranges across a variety of disciplines. It is particularly welcome because it is concise and tightly argued and becaus…
Comparing Diasporas: A Review Essay
Diaspora 8:3 1999 aring Diasporas: A Review Essay William Safran University of Colorado at Boulder Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Robin Cohen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. The Need to Generalize and the Problem of Conceptual Stretching The diaspora phenomenon has caught the attention of a growing number of scholars. This is not surprising: in an age of globalization , which is marked by proliferating population movements, ev…
Spatial and functional dimensions of autonomy: Cross‐national and theoretical perspectives
(1999). Spatial and functional dimensions of autonomy: Cross‐national and theoretical perspectives. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 11-34
Politics and language in contemporary France: Facing Supranational and Infranational Challenges
Article Politics and language in contemporary France: facing supranational and infranational challenges was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1999, issue 137)
Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return
Diasporas in Modem Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Safran University of Colorado, Boulder 1. Minorities, Aliens, and Diasporas: The Conceptual Problem In most scholarly discussions of ethnic communities, immigrants, and aliens, and in most treatments of relationships between minorities and majorities, little if any attention has been devoted to diasporas. In the most widely read books on nationalism and ethnonationalism,1 the phen…
Citizenship and Nationality in Democratic Systems: Approaches to Defining and Acquiring Membership in the Political Community
This article analyzes the approaches of five democratic countries—France, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and Israel—to determining membership in the national community. It examines the different definitions of citizenship and the variable uses of ascriptive and functional criteria, the mix of interpretations of jus sanguinis and jus soli, and the evolution of policies of naturalization. It deals with the circumstances surrounding the …
The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective William Safran (bio) For many generations, the phenomenon of Diaspora was dealt with only in connection with the Jews. Thus, the entry on "Diaspora" in the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences published in 1937 was by Simon Dubnow, the prominent scholar of Jewish history.1 With few exceptions, political scientists and historians ignored it, including those who focused on nationalism…
Language, ethnicity and religion: A Complex and Persistent Linkage
Among the markers of ethnonational identity, language and religion have figured with equal prominence. In many cases, religion has been the bedrock of nation‐building; and even today, it is difficult to separate a number of national identities from their religious matrices. Religious identity is based on, and perpetuated in, narratives expressed in a specific language. Language and religion are related; in our secular age, however, that relations…
Nation-Building, Collective Identity, and Language Choices: Between Instrumental and Value Rationalities
The discussion of the place of language in politics has generally revolved around its relationship to nation-building and ethnic conflict. Yet, these are not always causally connected nor is language easily given up for the sake of a greater national or individual good. Attitudes regarding language can be influenced by anticolonialist resentments, memories of past injustice, status paranoia, xenophobia, collective megalomania, religion, ideology,…
Language and nation-building in Israel: Hebrew and its rivals
Introduction: The Political Aspects of Language
Language is a marker of ethnic identity; a vehicle for expressing a distinct culture; a source of national cohesion; and an instrument for building political community. Yet the relationship between
Non-separatist Policies Regarding Ethnic Minorities: Positive Approaches and Ambiguous Consequences
This paper provides a tour d'horizon of institutional and other nonseparatist responses to ethnic minority claims, including affirmative action, ethnic recruitment, ethnic language maintenance and instruction, communalism, multiculturalism, supranationalism, and "corporatist" arrangements. It is suggested that these responses may have positive as well as unintended or perverse consequences both for society at large and for the minority ethnic gro…
Language, Ideology, and State-Building: A Comparison of Policies in France, Israel, and the Soviet Union
This article compares the relationship between dominant polit ical ideologies and language policies—Jacobinism and French; Zionism and Hebrew; and socialism-communism and Russian—and analyzes the use of superordinate languages as state-building instruments. It examines the policies pursued, and the political rationales invoked, by France to suppress Breton and other "peripheral" languages; by Israel to discourage the use of Yiddish; and by the So…
The Mitterrand Regime and Its Policies of Ethnocultural Accommodation
political and intellectual elite. This Jacobinism had defined democratic rationalism in terms of universal aspirations, viewed the enlarged and centralized nation-state as the ideal vehicle of progress, and looked upon tribes, provinces, and other intermediary units as retrogressive and destructive of democracy. The reasons for the eclipse of this ideology, which cannot be discussed in detail here, have been varied: the demystification of the Fre…
State, Nation, National Identity, and Citizenship: France as a Test Case
Since the Revolution of 1789 membership in the French national community has been based, ideally, on a voluntary commitment to the republic and to political values associated with it. The Jacobin ideal of the "nation state," according to which the nation is a product of the (democratic) state, has not always been adhered to in practice. This paper analyzes the challenges to the Jacobin model posed by the survival of "organic" thinking, the period…
Names, Labels, and Identities: Sociopolitical Contexts and the Question of Ethnic Categorization
This article addresses a relatively unexplored topic: the meaning and use of names and labels for ethnies and nations. It has been said (by Anthony Smith and others) that a nation is a “named” ethnic community. In the same sense, an ethnie is a “named” categoric group. The labeling of an ethnic or national categoric group by the group is often a self-conscious political act of identification reflecting its image and self-image and serving a varie…
Public Opinion as a Constraint against War: Democracies' Responses to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Journal Article Public Opinion as a Constraint against War: Democracies' Responses to Operation Iraqi Freedom Get access Steve Chan, Steve Chan University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Safran William Safran University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2006, Pages 137–156, https://doi.o…
The Catch-All Party Revisited: Reflections of a Kirchheimer Student
This article aims to do the following: reflect upon the life, experiences, ideas and teaching of Kirchheimer from the perspective of the author, his first dissertation advisee at Columbia University and one of his last students; discuss some of his major political observations and arguments; and consider their relevance today
Pluralism and Multiculturalism in France: Post-Jacobin Transformations
Journal Article Pluralism and Multiculturalism in France: Post-Jacobin Transformations Get access William Safran William Safran WILLIAM SAFRAN is professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His most recent books include The French Polity (6th ed.); Politics In Europe (3rd ed., coauthor); The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion, and Politics; and Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (coedited, with …
Nations, ethnic groups, states and politics: A preface and an agenda
(1995). Nations, ethnic groups, states and politics: A preface and an agenda. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-10
The French Left and ethnic pluralism
Ideology and Politics: The Socialist Party of France
Indian Diaspora in Transnational Contexts: Introduction
Peer-reviewed
Politics and language in contemporary France: Facing Supranational and Infranational Challenges
Article Politics and language in contemporary France: facing supranational and infranational challenges was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1999, issue 137)
Rights and Liberties Under the Mitterrand Presidency: Socialist Innovations and Post-Socialist Revisions
Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives
Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives. By Judith G. Kelley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 264p. $35.00. The subject of this study by Judith Kelley is the international factor in ethnic minority politics—the role of external institutions and norms in the democratic development of several countries and the policies regarding their ethnic minorities. These institutions, more specifically the European Union, the …
Spatial and functional dimensions of autonomy: Cross‐national and theoretical perspectives
(1999). Spatial and functional dimensions of autonomy: Cross‐national and theoretical perspectives. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 11-34
Islamization in Western Europe: Political Consequences and Historical Parallels
This article deals with Islamic postwar immigrants to Western Europe, specifically North Africans—Maghrebis—in France and Turks in West Germany. It explores the relationship between economic status, ethnic consciousness, and religion and discusses the response of the host society to the Islamic reality. In this exploration a comparison is made with the immigration, several generations earlier, of Jews from Eastern Europe. Whereas Jewish immigrant…
France and her Jews: From Culte Israelite to Lobby Juif
Two decades ago, the reality, let alone the legitimacy, of ethnic minority groups in France was barely acknowledged. Now the discussion of ethnopolitics has become fashionable: in the face of the "unexpected rebellions" by Bretons and Corsicans, scholars have also rediscovered the Occitan, Basque and other communities which had either been considered submerged into the French nation, or whose small size had made them politically insignificant
Gewaltlose Politik und Kulturelle Vielfalt
Das Verhaltnis der Schweiz zu den Vereinten Nationen
Politics, Economics, and Society in the Two Germanies, 1945-75: A Bibliography of English-Language Works
Ideology and Politics: The Socialist Party of France
United States
Income Distribution and Economic Inequality
France and her Jews: From Culte Israelite to Lobby Juif
Two decades ago, the reality, let alone the legitimacy, of ethnic minority groups in France was barely acknowledged. Now the discussion of ethnopolitics has become fashionable: in the face of the "unexpected rebellions" by Bretons and Corsicans, scholars have also rediscovered the Occitan, Basque and other communities which had either been considered submerged into the French nation, or whose small size had made them politically insignificant
The French Left and ethnic pluralism
The Mitterrand Regime and Its Policies of Ethnocultural Accommodation
political and intellectual elite. This Jacobinism had defined democratic rationalism in terms of universal aspirations, viewed the enlarged and centralized nation-state as the ideal vehicle of progress, and looked upon tribes, provinces, and other intermediary units as retrogressive and destructive of democracy. The reasons for the eclipse of this ideology, which cannot be discussed in detail here, have been varied: the demystification of the Fre…
Islamization in Western Europe: Political Consequences and Historical Parallels
This article deals with Islamic postwar immigrants to Western Europe, specifically North Africans—Maghrebis—in France and Turks in West Germany. It explores the relationship between economic status, ethnic consciousness, and religion and discusses the response of the host society to the Islamic reality. In this exploration a comparison is made with the immigration, several generations earlier, of Jews from Eastern Europe. Whereas Jewish immigrant…
Rights and Liberties Under the Mitterrand Presidency: Socialist Innovations and Post-Socialist Revisions
Immigration and Immigrants in the USA and France: Some Comparisons
The immigration policies and patterns of the United States and France lend themselves readily to comparison, because both countries have welcomed immigrants, actively promoted their assimilation, and tended to define society in terms of shared values rather than descent. Today, integration policies in both countries are challenged by the mass influx of immigrants — the Mexicans in the USA and the Maghrebis in France — who, by color, culture, or r…
International Relations and Politics
State, Nation, National Identity, and Citizenship: France as a Test Case
Since the Revolution of 1789 membership in the French national community has been based, ideally, on a voluntary commitment to the republic and to political values associated with it. The Jacobin ideal of the "nation state," according to which the nation is a product of the (democratic) state, has not always been adhered to in practice. This paper analyzes the challenges to the Jacobin model posed by the survival of "organic" thinking, the period…
Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return
Diasporas in Modem Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Safran University of Colorado, Boulder 1. Minorities, Aliens, and Diasporas: The Conceptual Problem In most scholarly discussions of ethnic communities, immigrants, and aliens, and in most treatments of relationships between minorities and majorities, little if any attention has been devoted to diasporas. In the most widely read books on nationalism and ethnonationalism,1 the phen…
Language, ideology and the state in French nation-building: The recent debate
Language, Ideology, and State-Building: A Comparison of Policies in France, Israel, and the Soviet Union
This article compares the relationship between dominant polit ical ideologies and language policies—Jacobinism and French; Zionism and Hebrew; and socialism-communism and Russian—and analyzes the use of superordinate languages as state-building instruments. It examines the policies pursued, and the political rationales invoked, by France to suppress Breton and other "peripheral" languages; by Israel to discourage the use of Yiddish; and by the So…
International Relations and Politics
Non-separatist Policies Regarding Ethnic Minorities: Positive Approaches and Ambiguous Consequences
This paper provides a tour d'horizon of institutional and other nonseparatist responses to ethnic minority claims, including affirmative action, ethnic recruitment, ethnic language maintenance and instruction, communalism, multiculturalism, supranationalism, and "corporatist" arrangements. It is suggested that these responses may have positive as well as unintended or perverse consequences both for society at large and for the minority ethnic gro…
Conclusions
Nations, ethnic groups, states and politics: A preface and an agenda
(1995). Nations, ethnic groups, states and politics: A preface and an agenda. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-10
The French Voter Decides. Daniel Boy , Nonna Mayer
The Dreyfus Affair, Political Consciousness, and the Jews: A Centennial Retrospective
Rebuilding the unity of divided nations and ethnies: Possibilities, incentives, and constraints
Citizenship and Nationality in Democratic Systems: Approaches to Defining and Acquiring Membership in the Political Community
This article analyzes the approaches of five democratic countries—France, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and Israel—to determining membership in the national community. It examines the different definitions of citizenship and the variable uses of ascriptive and functional criteria, the mix of interpretations of jus sanguinis and jus soli, and the evolution of policies of naturalization. It deals with the circumstances surrounding the …
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