Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse
Henry E. Hale — Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse (2004)Henry E. Hale · 2004 · Article · abstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0682 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Federation · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Ethnofederal states are more likely to collapse when they contain a core ethnic region, a single region with pronounced superiority in population; a study of world cases found that all ethnofederal states that have collapsed had one, and that dividing a dominant group into several regions reduces the danger.”
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Comparing Federal Systems (3rd ed.)
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