The Rise of "State Nations" - Stepan, Linz, and Yadav

Question 1

Three levels of cultural diversity

Answer 1

1: Robustly multinational (Canada, India)
2: Sociologically diverse (US)
3: Culturally homogeneous (Japan)

Question 2

N-S vs S-N

Answer 2

N-S: tries to make the political boundaries of the state and the cultural boundaries of the nation match
S-N: create a sense of belonging with respect to state-wide political community while creating safeguards for diversity

Question 3

4 Qualities of State-Nations

Answer 3

1: high degree of positive ID with the state
2: multiple but complementary IDs
3: high institutional trust
4: high degree of support for democracy

Question 4

How India created their democratic state-nation

Answer 4

1: search for policies that worked better than the typical nation-state model
2: choice of asymmetrical federalism
3: new model of secularism to accommodate religious heterogeneity
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