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By Alain-G. Gagnon, James Tully

ISBN-10: 051152157X

ISBN-13: 9780511521577

ISBN-10: 0521800293

ISBN-13: 9780521800297

ISBN-10: 0521804736

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Multinational Democracies is the 1st collaborative, multi-perspective serious survey of a brand new and specified kind of political organization that's entering prominence within the twenty-first century. those are democratic societies that aren't in simple terms multicultural but additionally multinational: that's, they contain or extra countries. Nineteen top comparative political scientists and political theorists from Europe and North the United States make clear the advanced personality and tensions of establishment democracies via reflecting on 4 exemplars--the uk, Spain, Belgium and Canada. The paintings deals a brand new method of the examine, realizing and governing of firm societies and, in so doing, of culturally varied societies extra often. This quantity should be of curiosity to these desirous about assorted societies, nationalism, struggles for reputation, federalism and democratic constitutionalism in stipulations of pluralism.

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This enables them to engage freely in negotiations of reciprocal disclosure and acknowledgement as they develop and amend their modes of recognition and cooperation, in conjunction with the fair reconciliation of other forms of diversity. One way in which the current Canadian constitutional identity could be brought in conformity with this enlightened argument of the Supreme Court is by the Assembly of First Nations and the Government of Quebec acting accordingly: that is, initiating separate referenda and negotiations for the explicit constitutional recognition of Quebec and ®rst nations as peoples with the right of self-determination.

He points out that the nation-state has only existed since the nineteenth century, and as such is only one possible way of dealing with nationality issues. Through a rereading of the histories of multinational societies, Keating demonstrates that there are traditions and practices in multinational societies which can provide a guide to present problems. These traditions and practices however, tend to compete against centralizing and unitarian doctrines. Turning to the multinational states of the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium and Canada, Keating argues that the states' ability to accommodate minority national groups has diminished, while the demands of these groups has increased.

This in turn has brought about a partial reconceptualization of the constitutional identity of Canada as a whole, yet without any formal constitutional change. 6 This is also the way Charles Taylor interprets the activity of recognition, as an ongoing dialogue of negotiating reciprocal acknowledgement (Taylor 1994, p. 34). 1 The turn to democratic constitutionalism in theory and practice Given the characteristics of recognition politics, two central questions need to be addressed: who decides if a demand for recognition as a nation or ®rst nation is legitimate?

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