Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminay Material / Jens Woelk , Francesco Palermo and Joseph Marko -- Chapter 1. History of the South Tyrol Conflict and Its Settlement / Emma Lantschner -- Chapter 2. Protection of Minorities under International Law and the Case of South Tyrol / Roberta Medda-Windischer -- Chapter 3. South Tyrol’s Special Status within the Italian Constitution / Francesco Palermo -- Chapter 4. Institutions of Self-Government / Giuseppe Avolio -- Chapter 5. Legislative and Administrative Autonomy / Sara Parolari and Leonhard Voltmer -- Chapter 6. The Financial System of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen / Thomas Benedikter -- Chapter 7. What It Means to Be Special in Relations with the Central State: Institutions and Procedures / Jens Woelk -- Chapter 8. Implementation and Amendment of the Autonomy Statute / Francesco Palermo -- Chapter 9. Cross-border Cooperation between Historical Legacies and New Horizons / Alice Engl and Carolin Zwilling -- Chapter 10. Regional Autonomies Providing Minority Rights and the Law of European Integration: Experiences from South Tyrol / Gabriel N. Toggenburg -- Chapter 11. Individual and Group Rights in South Tyrol: Article 2 as ,Grundnorm’ of the Autonomy Statute / Jens Woelk -- Chapter 12. Quota System, Census and Declaration of Affi Liation to a Linguistic Group / Emma Lantschner and Giovanni Poggeschi -- Chapter 13. The Educational System in South Tyrol / Siegfried Baur and Roberta Medda-Windischer -- Chapter 14. Linguistic Rights and the Use of Language / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle -- Chapter 15. A ‘Minority within a Minority’: the Special Status / Ladin Valleys and Günther Rautz -- Chapter 16. South Tyrol’s Special Status in Private Law: the ‘Entailed Farm’ and the ‘Grundbuch’ Systems / Giovanni Poggeschi -- Chapter 17. South Tyrol’s Consociational Democracy: between Political Claim and Social Reality / Günther Pallaver -- Chapter 18. Complex Power Sharing as Conflict Resolution: South Tyrol in Comparative Perspective / Stefan Wolff -- Chapter 19. Is There a South Tyrolean ‘Model’ of Conflict Resolution to Be Exported? / Joseph Marko -- Appendix / Alice Engl and Alexandra Tomaselli -- Editors / Jens Woelk , Francesco Palermo and Joseph Marko -- Authors / Jens Woelk , Francesco Palermo and Joseph Marko -- Index / Jens Woelk , Francesco Palermo and Joseph Marko.

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The autonomous province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy is generally considered to be one of the most successful examples for the solution of ethnic conflicts. The autonomy arrangement is characterized by detailed legal safeguards and strong guarantees creating a special and unique position within the Italian legal system and in a comparative perspective. This book gives an analysis of the evolution of the legal instruments and institutions of self-government and minority protection through power-sharing as well as of the experience gathered during decades of the implementation of a "working autonomy". It thus provides insights regarding the state and the evolution of this specific case as well as for the general tendencies in the development of territorial autonomy and minority protection.