Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority RightsThe increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory. |
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A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. Chapter. 1. Introduction. 1. The. Issues. Most countries today are ... democracies today. In Eastern Europe and the Third World, attempts to create liberal democratic institutions are being ...
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. Chapter. 1. Introduction. 1. The. Issues. Most countries today are ... democracies today. In Eastern Europe and the Third World, attempts to create liberal democratic institutions are being ...
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... liberals over the need for remedial affirmative action programmes is a familiar one in many liberal democracies.5 But what most post-war liberals on both the right and left continue to reject is the idea of permanent differentiation in ...
... liberals over the need for remedial affirmative action programmes is a familiar one in many liberal democracies.5 But what most post-war liberals on both the right and left continue to reject is the idea of permanent differentiation in ...
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A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. into the larger society, and to be accepted as full members of it ... democracies are multinational. For example, there are a number of national minorities in the United States, including ...
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. into the larger society, and to be accepted as full members of it ... democracies are multinational. For example, there are a number of national minorities in the United States, including ...
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A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. these attempts to renegotiate the terms of federation between ... democracies are also multinational, either because they have forcibly incorporated indigenous populations (e.g. Finland ...
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. these attempts to renegotiate the terms of federation between ... democracies are also multinational, either because they have forcibly incorporated indigenous populations (e.g. Finland ...
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A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. encompass a wide range of non-ethnic social groups which have, for ... democracies share a common 'culture'—that is, they all share a modern, urban, secular industrialized civilization ...
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka. encompass a wide range of non-ethnic social groups which have, for ... democracies share a common 'culture'—that is, they all share a modern, urban, secular industrialized civilization ...
Contents
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3 Individual rights and collective rights | 34 |
4 Rethinking the liberal tradition | 49 |
5 Freedomand culture | 75 |
6 Justice and minority rights | 107 |
7 Ensuring a voice for minorities | 131 |
8 Toleration and its limits | 152 |
9 The ties that bind | 173 |
10 Conclusion | 193 |
Notes | 196 |
Bibliography | 240 |
Index | 265 |
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