
Including Indigenous Minorities in Decision-Making
Experiences from Western Australia and New Zealand
Helene Pristed Nielsen(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 29. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-3-8465-1769-7 (ISBN)
Description
An increasing number of democratic states find themselves confronted by the reality of having to accommodate many and very varied groups of people who for various reasons consider themselves as having special group interests or preferences that differ from those of the majority culture. In such cases, the core democratic principle of 'one person one vote' entails a danger of creating permanent minorities who risk having their interests disregarded by what Tocqueville termed 'the tyranny of the majority'. While talk about a departure from the 'one person one vote' principle would likely ring alarm bells with many politicians and citizens, questions of democracy and minority inclusion have ranked high on the research agenda of many academics for years, and - as this book shows - neither are democratic experiments in actually existing democracies experiencing such challenges unheard of. This book is based on interview data with representatives of the Indigenous populations and government authorities in Western Australia and New Zealand and documents experiences with including Indigenous populations in political decision-making in these two settings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8465-1769-7 (9783846517697)
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Helene Pristed Nielsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Globalisation at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her work focuses on democracy and minority inclusion, and she has contributed to the establishment of EDGE Center for Equality, Diversity and Gender at Aalborg University.