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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Quebec and Wallonia in ComparativePerspective Min Reuchamps Part 1 1. Critical Junctures,Feedback Effects and Constitutional Change: AComparison of Quebec/Canada and Wallonia/BelgiumLuc Turgeon 2. Québécois and Walloon Identities: TheShift from an Ethnic to a Civic Identity. The Pitfalls ofIdentity Exclusion in Comparison Jean-François CaronPart 2 Politics in Quebec and Wallonia 3. ConstructingQuebec and Wallonia: How Political Parties Speakabout their Region Heidi Mercenier, Julien Perrez andMin Reuchamps 4.Career Patterns in Multi-levelQuebec and Wallonia: Towards a Sub-State andFederal Political Class? Jérémy Dodeigne 5. LocalPolitics in Quebec and Wallonia: Local PoliticalDynamics as Seen through the Mayoral Career SandraBreux and Vincent Jacquet Part 3 6. Quebecois andWalloon Public Administrations: A Tool TowardsAutonomy? Maxime Petit Jean 7. Language Policy: TwoFrench-Speaking Linguistic Minorities, Two ContrastedPolitical Strategies Philippe Hambye 8. The InternationalRelations of Minority Nations: Is IdentityParadiplomacy the Only Way to Go? Stéphane Paquin,Marine Kravagna and Min Reuchamps ConclusionMichael Burgess Index

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Minority Nations inMultinationalFederationsA comparative study of Quebec and Wallonia

Edited by Min Reuchamps, Université catholique deLouvain, Belgium.

Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

This edited volume offers a comprehensive comparison oftwo such minority nations - Quebec in Canada and Walloniain Belgium - which exemplifies many dimensions, themesand issues highly resonant to the study of federalism andregionalism across the globe. Quebec and Wallonia haveexperienced several decades of federal dynamics whereboth regions have had to find their way as a minority nationin a multinational federation. This book seeks to study thespecific dynamics within these small worlds and betweenthem and the rest of the federation.

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