Modern plural societies characterized by ethno-cultural diversity are forming demand for effective balance of inter-group relations. The institutionalization language policy is becoming the way inter-ethnic relations regulation. problem implementation relevance in modern European federations, boundaries which overlap on linguistic communities’ residence. In such cases federal center includes im...

We thank Enrico Spolaore for early advice and Rajiv Vohra for helpful discussions on the topic. We are also grateful to James C. Davis for his help throughout the project, Christine Kearney for preparation of the federalism index, and Fumiko Tamura for her help as a research assistant. Finally we thank two anonymous referees and an editor for helpful detailed comments.

California, Berkeley; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. The authors thank Maite Careaga, Scott Gehlbach, John Litwack, Douglass North, Yingyi Qian, and Daniel Treisman for helpful comments. Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition Rui J. P. de ...

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