The broad-basing process in India: an introduction / M.V. Nadkarni -- The broad-basing process and Dalits / M.V. Nadkarni -- Whither Dalit movement in Karnataka? Its achievements and challenges / Manohar Yadav -- The broad-basing process and the backward classes / V. Anil Kumar -- The...

The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...

We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...