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Comparing Federal Systems (3rd ed.)

Ronald L. Watts · McGill-Queen's University Press · 2008

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Ronald L. Watts
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 9781553391883 (3rd edition).

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TheoryEthnofederal 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.