Opiola, Wojciech <br/><br/>
Ethnic diversity and local governance quality : The case of Opole Province in Poland 

 - Bern  Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group  2020 
 - 1 electronic resource (238 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> The book is devoted to relations between the ethnic diversity and the quality of governance at the local level. Opolskie province in Poland is a case for explaining this interdependence. That is because of its history of multiculturalism and the present state of its ethnic diversity. The important feature of this region is, that nearly half of the communes is ethnically homogenous when the rest is ethnically diversified with a strong position of German and Silesian minorities. The preliminary assumption was, that the quality of governance would be higher in communes characterized by ethnic diversity. On the basis of the nested analysis method, authors conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>b16752 9783631817087 9783631817094 9783631817100 9783631812938 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3726/b16752  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>case civil society Czepil diversity Ethnic German minority governance local local democracy Multiculturalism Opiola Opole Poland Province quality Regional self-government Silesia