Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism by Requejo, Ferran;

Rövid leírás:

This book addresses the issue of whether or not federalism be a fair and workable way of articulating multinational societies according to revised liberal-democratic patterns.

Hosszú leírás:

This book addresses the democratic accommodation of national pluralism through federal rules. The key question is: can federalism be a fair and workable way of articulating multinational societies according to revised liberal-democratic patterns? In recent years, scholarly discussion on this issue has undergone a change. Nowadays, the answer to this question is much more complex than the one that traditional political liberalism and federalism used to give us. In the past, these two political approaches usually addressed the question of political pluralism without seriously including national pluralism in the discussion, a theoretical attitude that has often misrepresented and impoverished the moral discussions and the institutional practices of multinational democratic federations.

Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism has been awarded the prize for the best book in 2005 by the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA).

'The work of Ferran Requjo has become a genuine point of reference, both intellectually and politically, in the debates on the reform of the State of the Autonomies that have taken place in Spain over the last few years.'

Ramon Maiz, Nations and Nationalism 

'Thoroughly revised and lucidly edited, Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism contains in updated form some of the normative political theory that is currently being developed ion Catalonia.'

Ramon Maiz, Nations and Nationalism 

Tartalomjegyzék:

ntroduction Part 1: Political Liberalism and Multinational Democracies: Theoretical Aspects 1. The Quality of Democracy in Multinational Contexts 2. Democratic Legitimacy and National Pluralism Part 2: Multinational Democracies and Federalism 3. Federalism, Federations and National Pluralism 4. Plural Federalism Part 3: Plural Federalism and the Spanish Estado de Las Autonomias 5.The Spanish Estado de las Autonomías
6. Future Scenarios for the Spanish Multinational Democracy Final Remarks Federalism for Primates... That Strive Not to Be So References