Description
Multinational Democracies is the first collaborative, multiperspective 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. Fifteen 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.
Chapter
Part I Justice and stability in multinational democracies
1 So many nations, so few states: territory and nationalism in the global era
Nationalism and the state
2 Political stability in multinational democracies: comparing language dynamics in Brussels, Montreal and Barcelona
The civic state: panacea for stability?
Group status and the fear of minorization
3 Justice and stability in multinational societies
The concepts of justice and stability
The politics of justice and stability: a case study ofCanada±Quebec relations
Justice and stability in public justification
4 Political liberalism in multinational states: the legitimacy of plural and asymmetrical federalism ferran requejo
Two initial comments on multinational states andfederalism
Plural and asymmetrical federalism: the Spanish case
Part II Struggles over recognition and institutions of accommodation
5 Federalism, federation and collective identities in Canada and Belgium: different routes, similar fragmentation
Pan-Canadianism and fragmentation: thirty years ofTrudeauism
Devolutionary federalization and the temptation ofcloisonnement: belgitude in crisis
Conclusions for a theory of federal citizenship
6 Recognition claims, partisan politics and institutional constraints: Belgium, Spain and Canada in a comparative perspective
Belgium: an eradication of national identity
Spain: an institutionalized hierarchy of identities
Canada: a crystallization of conflicting identities
Beyond a hierarchy of collective identities
7 Ethnoterritorial concurrence in multinational societies: the Spanish comunidades autoÂnomas
Introduction: conceptual assumptions
Unity and diversity in contemporary Spain
Multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence and the Spanishcomunidades autoÂnomas
Meso-communities and the new cosmopolitan localismin Europe
8 Mutual recognition and the accommodation of national diversity: constitutional justice in Northern Ireland
Constitutional justice and cultural diversity
The struggle for mutual recognition in Northern Ireland
Mutual recognition in the Good Friday Agreement
9 Federalist language policies: the cases of Canada and Spain
Constitutional justice and cultural diversity
The struggle for mutual recognition in Northern Ireland
Mutual recognition in the Good Friday Agreement
10 Competing national visions: Canada-Quebec relations in a comparative perspective
Introduction: strains and tensions in multinationalfederations
Five dimensions to Canada-Quebec relations
Conclusion: competing national visions
Part III Modes of reconciliation and conflict management
11 Liberal citizenship in multinational societies
Equal recognition in the public sphere
Nationalism and the public sphere
Liberalism and citizen dispositions
12 Nationality in divided societies
Ethnic cleavages, rival nationalities and nestednationalities
The English, the Scots and British national identity
How should nested national identities be expressed politically?
13 The moral foundation of asymmetrical federalism: a normative exploration of the case of Quebec and Canada
Deepening democratic principles
14 Federalism and the management of conflict in multinational societies
Difficulties in making generalizations
Conditions under which federalism is likely to prove successful
Multinational Democracies
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