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List of illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
Note on the author | p. xiii |
Introduction: the merits of federalism and new awareness of the multination | p. 1 |
Federalism and federation | p. 3 |
Territorial and multinational federalism | p. 5 |
The federal condition in Canada and Spain | p. 6 |
Overview of the chapters | p. 9 |
Memory and national identity in Catalonia and Québec | p. 11 |
Memory and national construction | p. 13 |
Defining events: Catalonia's journey | p. 15 |
Defining events: Québec's journey | p. 19 |
Affirmation of national cultures | p. 23 |
The constellation of belongings | p. 25 |
The normative foundations of asymmetrical federalism: the Canadian situation from a comparative perspective | p. 31 |
Clarification of concepts | p. 34 |
The communitarian principle | p. 38 |
The egalitarian principle | p. 41 |
The democratic principle | p. 45 |
The emerging phenomenon of the multination | p. 52 |
Dualism and pluralism | p. 53 |
From deep diversity to the multination | p. 57 |
Trudeau versus Taylor | p. 60 |
The painful birth of a new Canadian school of diversity | p. 63 |
Executive federalism and the exercise of democracy in Canada | p. 67 |
Conceptual considerations and historical developments | p. 68 |
The principal challenges facing executive federalism | p. 73 |
When majority nationalism trumps executive federalism | p. 81 |
The effects of majority nationalism in Canada | p. 88 |
Theoretical considerations | p. 89 |
Three government initiatives | p. 92 |
A case for a multidimensional approach | p. 101 |
Resistance and potential: the duty to consider the multination | p. 106 |
John Rawls' cooperative scheme in perpetuity | p. 107 |
Daniel Elazar's self-rule and shared rule | p. 111 |
Ernest Renan's daily plebiscite | p. 115 |
Creative politics; healthy tensions and unresolved issues | p. 117 |
Conclusion | p. 120 |
Notes | p. 124 |
Bibliography | p. 139 |
Index | p. 155 |
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