Language Problems & Language Planning 40:1 (2016), 108–111. PDF
Reviewed by Federico Gobbo (Universiteit van Amsterdam & Università di Torino)
This book [Nenad Stojanović. Dialogo sulle quote: Rappresentanza, eguaglianza e discriminazione nelle democrazie multiculturali. Bologna. Il Mulino. 2014. 302 pp.]is an Italian translation of Stojanović’s (2013) revised doctoral dissertation written in 2008, about the spread of quotas in the public sphere, e.g., to guarantee a minimal presence of women in the Parliament parties can decide to have 50% of candidates of each gender. In particular, the book mainly deals with the use of quotas to protect linguistic minorities in multilingual contexts. Typical case studies, used by the author across the text, are Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium and Südtirol/Alto Adige. […]