Decoupled Empowerment: Minority Representation and the Implementation of Language Rights in Romania
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 28 pages, pdf Description: This article examines to what degree minority empowerment, understood as representation in political and administrative decision-making, leads to the implementation of minority protection policy. As a case study, it examines the implementation of minority language use in Romanian public administration. The Hungarian minority in Romania has been represented in both political and administrative decision-making at the central and local levels by the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR).