Political Autonomy and Divided Societies

JACQUES BERTRAND Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada JAMES BICKERTON Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ISABELLE COTE PHD candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada ANDRE FAZI Member of the CNRS, attached to the University of Corsica, France EVE HEPBURN Deputy Director of the Academy of Government at the University of Edinburgh, UK and Senior Research Fellow in Politics REMI LEGER Doctoral Candidate in Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada GENEVIEVE NOOTENS Professor of Political Science at the Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada FRANCESCO PALERMO Director, Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism in Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. DEJAN STJEPANOVIC Ph.D researcher at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy MARKKU SUKSI Professor of public law at Abo Akademi University, Finland RICARD ZAPATA-BARRERO Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and Social Sciences at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.