Introduction Democratic Governance and Minority Political Participation: Emerging Legal Standards and Practice, Marc Weller Part I: General Issues 1. Ethnic Diversity, Political Exclusion and Armed Conflict: A Quantitative Analysis of a Global Dataset, Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman and Brian Min 2. Ethnic Democracies, John McGarry 3. Understanding Minority Participation and Representation and the Issue of Citizenship, Annelies Verstichel 4. Minority Participation and State Design, John Packer 5. The Principle of Full and Effective Equality and Political Participation, Zdenka Machnyikova and Lanna Hollo 6. Gendering Minority Participation in Public Life, Karen Bird Part II. Legal Frameworks 7.

Minorities, Political Participation and Democratic Governance under the European Convention on Human Rights, Steven Wheatley 8. The Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities and the Advisory Committee Thematic Comment, Josef Marko 9. The OSCE Lund Recommendations in the Practice of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Krzysztof Drzewicki 10. Effective Participation by Minorities: UN Standards and Practice, Ilona Alexander 11. Universal and European standards of Political Participation of Minorities, Andraz A. Melansek 12. Political Participation Systems Applicable to Indigenous Rights, Luis Rodriguez-Pinero Part III. Representation 13.

Electoral Systems Design, Brendan O'Leary 14. Making Effective Use of Parliamentary Representation, Oleh Protsyk 15. Executive Power-sharing, Florian Bieber 16. At the Heart of Participation and its Dilemmas: Minorities in the Executive Structures, Francesco Palermo 17. Political Participation and Power-sharing in Ethnic Peace Settlements, Fernand de Varennes Part IV: Consultation and Special Issue Participation 18. Minority Consultative Mechanisms: Towards Best Practice, Marc Weller 19. Special Contact Mechanisms on Roma, Eva Sobotka 20. Participation in Social and Economic Life, Kristin Henrard 21.

Benchmarking: International Standards for Minority Participation in the Judiciary, Katherine Nobbs Part IV: Minority Self-governance 22. Federalism, Regionalism and Asymmetrical Autonomy, Yash Ghai 23. Cultural Minority Self-governance, Ephraim Nimni 24. Enhanced Local Self-government as a Means of Enhancing Minority Governance, Bill Bowring 25. Minority Associations: Issues of Representation, Internal Democracy and Legitimacy, Peter Vermeersch Part V: Implementation Issues 26. Minority Participation in Bilateral and International Reporting and Monitoring Processes, Emma Lantschner 27. Legislative Entrenchments and Implementation Remedies, Alain Chablais.