Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the Commonwealth of Independent States Book

	Introduction to the Series
	Acknowledgements
	List of Contributors
	List of Tables and Figures
	Challenges for Minority Governance on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century
Pt. 1	The Russian Federation	1
	Local Self-Government versus Local State Administration: Russia's Hybrid Experience	3
	Homegrown Solution: Dagestan Innovates to Address Ethnic Diversity	21
	Lessons Learned from Addressing Tensions Caused by Ethnic Migration in Rostov	39
	Are Minorities Left Out? State Powers and Local Self-Government in North Ossetia	63
	Local Self-Government in the Republic of Tatarstan	91
	Old Elite and Soviet-style System in New Bashkortostan Stifle Representative Democracy	113
	Ethnic Groups Dispersed in a Metropolitan Megalopolis	143
	Compromise and Innovation Help Mari El Address Ethnic and Local Government Issues	173
	Adygea Relies on Old Traditions to Build New Self-Governments	191
Pt. 2	CIS Countries Outside Russia
	Local Self-Government in the Newly Independent States	203
	Turbulent Past Complicates Crimea's Minority Relations	207
	Ethnic Factors and Local Self-Government in Tajikistan	235
	Titular Population Has the Edge in Kazakhstan	263
	Kyrgyzstan's Innovative Solutions to Ethnic Relations Are Insufficient	297
	Further Reading	325
	Index	329