Multinational Democracies

by Edited by Alain-G. Gagnon , James Tully

• ISBN13: 9780521804738
• ISBN10: 0521804736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Multinational Democracies is the first collaborative, multi-perspective critical survey of a new and distinctive type of political association that is coming into prominence in the twenty-first century. These are democratic societies that are not only multicultural but also multinational: that is, they comprise two or more nations. Nineteen leading comparative political scientists and political theorists from Europe and North America clarify the complex character and tensions of multinational democracies by reflecting on four exemplars--the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium and Canada. The work offers a new approach to the study, understanding and governing of multinational societies and, in so doing, of culturally diverse societies more generally. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with diverse societies, nationalism, struggles for recognition, federalism and democratic constitutionalism in conditions of pluralism.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	vii
Foreword	xiii
Charles Taylor
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction	1	(34)
James Tully
Part I Justice and stability in multinational democracies	35	(98)
So many nations, so few states: territory and nationalism in the global era	39	(26)
Michael Keating
Political stability in multinational democracies: comparing language dynamics in Brussels, Montreal and Barcelona	65	(25)
Dominique Arel
Justice and stability in multinational societies	90	(20)
Wayne Norman
Political liberalism in multinational states: the legitimacy of plural and asymmetrical federalism	110	(23)
Ferran Requejo
Part II Struggles over recognition and institutions of accommodation	133	(142)
Federalism, federation and collective identities in Canada and Belgium: different routes, similar fragmentation	137	(39)
Dimitrios Karmis
Alain-G. Gagnon
Recognition claims, partisan politics and institutional constraints: Belgium, Spain and Canada in a comparative perspective	176	(25)
Francois Rocher
Christian Rouillard
Andre Lecours
Ethnoterritorial concurrence in multinational societies: the Spanish comunidades autonomas	201	(21)
Luis Moreno
Mutual recognition and the accommodation of national diversity: constitutional justice in Northern Ireland	222	(20)
Shane O'Neill
Federalist language policies: the case of Canada and Spain	242	(15)
Pierre Coulombe
Competing national visions: Canada-Quebec relations in a comperative perspective	257	(18)
Michael Burgess
Part III Modes of reconciliation and conflict management	275	(91)
Liberal citizenship in multinational societies	279	(20)
Alan Patten
Nationality in divided societies	299	(20)
David Miller
The moral foundation of asymmetrical federalism: a normative exploration of the case of Quebec and Canada	319	(19)
Alain-G. Gagnon
Federalism and the management of conflict in multinational societies	338	(28)
Richard Simeon
Daniel-Patrick Conway
References	366	(12)
Index	378