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This book explores the rights and situations of ethnocultural groups in Western democracies. It presents essays that share three major themes: the dialectic of nation building and minority rights, the gap between theory and practice of liberal democracies; and the effectiveness of emerging forms of nation-building and minority rights in Western democracies. The book is divided into four parts. Part I presents debates on the rights of ethnocultural minorities. Part II discusses the requirements for ethnocultural justices in a liberal democracy. Part III examines liberals’ misconceptions about n ... More
Keywords: ethnocultural groups, Western democracies, liberal democracies, nation building, minority rights, justice, nationalism, democratic citizenship
Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199240982 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199240981.001.0001 |
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