We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with …

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic … methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like … degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they can justify language planning are treated. A cost-benefit approach …

toward minorities. First, Turkey transfers minority policies in responding to European Union pressures and demands. Turkey … changes the accession process might encourage in its traditional minority regime. Therefore, the governments employed … restrictive measures in minority rights in the domestic scene. The political space of Turkey has been ethnically restrictive which …