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Pol215 - How should constitutional design respond to competing claims for of?cial language status in countries where there is more than one language, whose speakers are concentrated in a speci?c territory, and hence, where more than one language is a plausible candidate for use in public services, public education, legislatures, the courts, and public administration?
Pol 215 - This is one of the most pervasive and pressing constitutional problems of modern political life. It has been largely ignored in the literatures on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design. This article therefore turns to constitutional practice, and focuses on South Asia, where linguistic nationalism has been one of the principal forces shaping constitutional developments for over sixty years. South Asia has been a constitutional laboratory on questions of linguistic nationalism, and vividly illustrates both that it is possible to manage linguistic nationalism through constitutional design, and conversely, that the cost of getting of?cial-language policy wrong can be very high.
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Introduction
Mkt498 - How should constitutional design respond to nationalist mobilization on the basis of language?
Mkt 498 - More speci?cally, how should constitutional design respond to competing claims for of?cial-language status in countries where there is more than one language, whose speakers are concentrated in a speci?c territory, and, hence, where more than one language is a plausible candidate for use in public services, public education, legislatures, the courts, and public administration? This is one of most pervasive and pressing constitutional problems of modern political life.
Pol 215
Pol 215 - This is one of the most pervasive and pressing constitutional problems of modern political life. It has been largely ignored in the literatures on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design. This article therefore turns to constitutional practice, and focuses on South Asia, where linguistic nationalism has been one of the principal forces shaping constitutional developments for over sixty years. South Asia has been a constitutional laboratory on questions of linguistic nationalism, and vividly illustrates both that it is possible to manage linguistic nationalism through constitutional design, and conversely, that the cost of getting of?cial-language policy wrong can be very high.
Downloaded from icon.oxfordjournals.org at University of Michigan on August 27, 2011
Introduction
Mkt498 - How should constitutional design respond to nationalist mobilization on the basis of language?
Mkt 498 - More speci?cally, how should constitutional design respond to competing claims for of?cial-language status in countries where there is more than one language, whose speakers are concentrated in a speci?c territory, and, hence, where more than one language is a plausible candidate for use in public services, public education, legislatures, the courts, and public administration? This is one of most pervasive and pressing constitutional problems of modern political life.
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