With the nation of the nation-state, the in citizenship laws of the state provide clear answers as to who is a member of the nation and who is not. [...] The eighteenth-century concept of popular sovereignty was designed for the "people as a whole." When the revolutionaries in France stated that the princi- ple of sovereignty resides essentially in the nation, they may be taken to have asserted that the nation was more than the king and the aristocracy. [...] The new ideas of the philosophes, emphasizing the cult of liberty and equal- ity and, in particular, the idea of state power rooted in popular consent, were 2 the conditions of diversity in multinational democracies initially applied to the construction and consolidation of the nation-state. [...] Using Catalonia as a case study, Guibernau shows that opposing conceptions of the state and the nation coexisted during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the 40 years of Franco's dictatorship, and that there was an attempt to reconcile the two concepts in the transition to democracy and decentralization of Spain. [...] In the second section, I link value pluralism with multinational federations in order to discuss the suitability of establishing the 15 recognition of national pluralism, a plurinational division of powers, the participa- tion in the processes of constitutional reform and the constitutional regulation of the right of self-determination, following the 1998 decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Preface managing cultural differences in multinational democracies 10
- Introduction 20
- 1 The Conditions of Diversity in Multinational Democracies 22
- Part I: theoretical conditions of diversity 34
- 2 Value Pluralism and Multinational Federalism 36
- 3 Between Nation and Dissemination: 62
- 4 Rethinking Political Recognition 80
- 5 The Legal Mediation of Social Diversity 106
- Part II: institutional conditions of diversity 134
- 6 Between Autonomy and Secession: 136
- 7 Redesigning the UK: The Politics of Devolution 156
- 8 Culture, Identity and Development in European Minority 174
- 9 The Constitutional Accommodation of National Minorities 190
- 10 Questioning Constitutional Democracy in Canada: 228
- Part III: diversity under stress 260
- 11 "Transnationalism" or "Renationalization"? 262
- 12 Paradiplomacy: A Nation-Building Strategy? 288
- 13 Undermining Federalism and Feeding Minority Nationalism: 316
- 14 Nationalism's Third Way? Comparing the Emergence 336
- Notes on contributors 368
