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What Theorists of Nationalism Have to Learn from Multinational States

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Multinational Federalism

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Theories of nationalism comes in various shapes and sizes – ethnic and civic; primordialist and modernising; functionally inspired; Marxist-inspired; rational choice-inspired; psychologically based, state-based, culturally-based and so on. Indeed, so vast is the array on offer, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands in trying to map them.

There has never been a perfect government, because men are creatures of passion.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada

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  2. Department of Political Science, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

    Alain-G. Gagnon (Professor) (Professor)

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Resnick, P. (2012). What Theorists of Nationalism Have to Learn from Multinational States. In: Seymour, M., Gagnon, AG. (eds) Multinational Federalism. The Comparative Territorial Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016744_4

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