“…6 Many of these cases, though, are of little further significance: such activists as emerge from the ranks of the minority give voice to few claims for special treatment, much less autonomy, whether a consequence of the small size of the minority, its dispersed character, its limited access to political resources, or its weak collective sense of identity. Nevertheless, there have been several important cases where non-territorial autonomy emerged as an obvious solution to a challenging problem (Nimni, 2007(Nimni, , 2013. Broadly speaking, these correspond to three models: corporate autonomy in the traditional state, cultural autonomy in the modern state, and autonomy for indigenous peoples in the contemporary period.…”