Democracy and Cultural Diversity
This book is a study of how some of the world's leading democratic states have responded to the challenge of territorial or sub-national movements seeking to increase the salience of cultural differences—ethnic, linguistic, and regional identity—on the national agenda. International experts explore the various ways that cultural differences have acquired political significance and how these are managed by democratic states in every region of the world.
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This book is a study of how some of the world's leading democratic states have responded to the challenge of territorial or sub-national movements seeking to increase the salience of cultural differences—ethnic, linguistic, and regional identity—on the national agenda. International experts explore the various ways that cultural differences have acquired political significance and how these are managed by democratic states in every region of the world.
ForewordIntroduction: Democracy and Cultural Diversity1Canada: Unity and Diversity12Mexico: Political Management of Diversity27Latin America: Constitutional Reform and Ethnic Rights41Spain: Catalonia and the Basque Country55Great Britain: From Dicey to Devolution69Switzerland: A Paradigm in Evolution96Belgium: Language, Ethnicity and Nationality114Slovakia: Language and National Unity135Ghana: Un Beau Voyage in the 1990s?142Nigeria: Federalism and Ethnic Rivalry157Lebanon: Patterns of Confessional Politics169India: Democracy and Dissent181Malaysia: Dilemmas of Integration189Dealing With Difference: Four Models of Pluralist Politics198
