Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

Neil DeVotta · Stanford University Press (2004)

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Most-cited single scholarly anchor for the case file's constitutional-narrowing argument. DeVotta's 'institutional decay' framework reads the 1948 Citizenship Acts, the 1956 Official Language Act, the 1972 and 1978 Constitutions, the Sixth Amendment (1983), and the non-implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment as a cumulative institutional pattern rather than a sequence of discrete grievances. Tier-A peer-reviewed; cited by OHCHR OISL, by ICG, and across the academic literature.

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