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 politi...

Miles de politólogas y politólogos aprendimos y aprendemos el análisis político de la actualidad estudiando la carrera universitaria con el Manual de Ciencia Política. Es un libro clásico con innovaciones en su nueva etapa: nuevos autores, nuevos capítulos, nuevos bloques, nueva estructura, nueva numeración y nuevos contenidos. El libro tiene diez bloques y contiene treinta capítulos: 1) Ciencia política. 2) Sistema político: Estado y sistema político, dictadura y golpe de Estado, transici...

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "tyranny of the majority".The empirical evidence on federal and regional polities often shows critical imbalances in the territorial division of powers beyond what has been formally established in the constitutional rules. This volume highlights the rights, institutions...

How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering questions of citizenship, multiculturalism, immigration and equality. The contributors, many of whom have set the terms of this debate in international political science, include Will Kymlicka, Carlos Clo...

There are numerous examples of how religion and nationalism intertwine. In some cases, a common religion is the fundamental marker of a nation’s identity, whereas in others secular nationalism tries to hold together people of different religious beliefs.This book examines the link between religion and nationalism in contemporary polities. By exploring case studies on India, Russia, Israel, Canada, Chechnya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Catalon...

The current context of developed societies is characterised by a number of phenomena, the most significant of which are processes of economic globalisation, information technologies, increasing multiculturalism and the emergence of cases of national pluralism which require full political accommodation both within democracies and in the international sphere.The book examines the current state of affairs concerning the political recognition and constitutional accommodation of nationa...

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and comparative accounts of key issues such as:* politics and policies of accommodation* multiculturalism* recognition of group rights* federalist reforms and debates in Canada and European states* the political construction of the European Union.

This book provides a theoretical and comparative analysis of federalism and federations in plurinational democracies, examining how states with distinct peoples and communities coexist (or not).Through a theoretical approach to democracy and federalism, and interdisciplinary analysis of plurinationality in state organization, including case studies of the UK, Russia, Canada, Belgium, India, Spain, Switzerland and Bolivia, this text assesses the possibilities and limits of federalis...

In contrast with the progressive dilution of religions predicted by traditional liberal and Marxist approaches, religions remain important for many people, even in Europe, the most secularised continent. In the context of increasingly culturally diverse societies, this calls for a reinterpretation of the secular legacy of the Enlightenment and also for an updating of democratic institutions.This book focuses on a central question: are the classical secularist arrangements well equi...

Liburu honen xede nagusia, euskal eztabaida politikoa gizarteratu eta demokratizatzea da. Praktika estrategiko, inklusibo, diziplinarteko, kritiko eta eraikitzailea proposatuz. Abiapuntua, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen ‘XXXIV. Udako eta XXVII. Europar Ikastaroen’ edizioaren barruan, 2015eko Uztailaren 9 eta 10ean ospatu zen ‘Berrikuntza Politikoa’ Uda Eskola da. Aipatutako ekitaldian, Igor Calzada doktore eta Jokin Bildarratz zuzendariek ikuspegi praktiko batetik, Erreforma Konstituzion...

Since the end of the Second World War, a set of democratic European countries have established a decentralized system of government based on federal or regional patterns. Some of these systems initially displayed an asymmetrical trend, however, some democracies have implemented a subsequent process of re-symmetrization that changes the structure and the legitimization of the previous political agreements. Charting the evolution of decentralization processes and asymmetries implemented in B...