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PLURI-ETHNIQUE [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
CONT

In conclusion, against the old - from Western European history inspired - concept of the multinational state, a new concept of multi-ethnic democracy which then has to be carefully adapted to country specific needs requires, on the one hand, institution-engineering with the effect of fostering multi-ethnic cooperation on all territorial levels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
CONT

Dans ces circonstances, le Kosovo deviendra peut-être lui aussi une démocratie pluri-ethnique sous haute surveillance internationale comme la Bosnie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
  • Social Organization
Key term(s)
  • multi ethnic police

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Organisation sociale
OBS

Bien que la graphie pluri-ethnique est recensée dans certains ouvrages, les mots composés avec la préfixe pluri s’écrivent en un seul mot.

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
  • Social Organization
DEF

involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.

CONT

Concrete hypotheses are also developed about the interaction between the processes of class formation and ethnic-national mobilization in ethnically homogeneous, in pluriethnic, and in multinational societies.

OBS

The term "pluriethnic" has been found in the International Journal of Group Tensions, 1992.

OBS

"multi" does not take a hyphen unless the main word begins with i (multi-insular).

Key term(s)
  • multi-ethnic
  • multi ethnic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
  • Organisation sociale
DEF

Où coexistent plusieurs ethnies différente.

CONT

Le régime titiste promulgue un statut pluri-ethnique(conçu pour plusieurs ethnies) à l'exemple de l'U. R. R. S.

Key term(s)
  • multi-ethnique
  • pluriethnique

Spanish

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