Description: This book systematically explores the relationship between the state, and different levels of community.
Review Quotes: "Mason's focus on political community distinguishes his book on community theory from other recent works...Mason's style of writing is logical and linear...While his style is dense and scholarly, the reader is amply rewared by conclusions which are simply stated and reitertated throughout ensuing chapters...Throughout his book, Mason's focus on the practical political compromises and conditions neccessary for inclusive communities to flourish is welcome...his focus on the political realities lurjing beneath community conflict at a variety of levels provides a needed contextual frame to our efforts at achieving intercultural understanding." Pergamon Vol. 25, July 01