Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy
Multiculturalism is not la mode nowadays. It is attacked by both right-wing populists and mainstream politicians and leaders of liberal democracies. Indeed, conflicts surrounding cultural diversity and recognition are among the most salient issues in contemporary societies. Should liberal democracies recognise specific cultural rights of minorities? If so, should they grant rights only to indigenous national minorities or also to immigrants? Is such a recognition compatible with the basic liberal principle of state neutrality?
Practical questions of this kind are in quest of sound theoretical foundations. Alan Pattens approach to multiculturalism, developed in Equal Recognition (2014), is the most recent and prominent example of such an effort. Considered the most important contribution to the philosophy of cultural diversity since Will Kymlickas Multicultural Citizenship, Pattens work elaborates new and original conceptions of culture and liberal neutrality. It reasserts the case in favour of liberal multiculturalism and applies its theoretical framework to concrete contemporary issues, such as language rights, federalism, secession, and immigrant integration.
This collection presents a critical review of Pattens approach to cultural plurality. The critics question the overall normative strategy of Equal Recognition, its account of neutrality, especially with regards to language rights, its assumptions about democracy and, finally, its relevance to public policy debates. It will be of interest to political scientists, philosophers, and legal theorists, and will inspire students and politicians alike.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Sergi Morales-Glvez is a PhD research scholar at the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium, and a researcher in the FP7 MIME (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe) project. He works on language policy, democratic theory, republicanism, nationalism, and multiculturalism.
Nenad Stojanovi is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on challenges to democracy in divided societies. He is currently working on a project on electoral discriminations funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy
Alan Patten and His Critics
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Sergi Morales-Glvez and Nenad Stojanovi
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Alan Pattens theory of equal recognition and its contribution to the debate over multiculturalism
Sergi Morales-Glvez and Nenad Stojanovi
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17
Chapter 1
Unequal but fair? Cultural recognition and self-government rights
Rainer Baubck
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 822
Chapter 2
Neutrality, autonomy, and power
Eldar Sarajli
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 2335
Chapter 3
Neutrality of what?
Chiara Cordelli
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 3648
Chapter 4
Dispositional neutrality and minority rights
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 4962
Chapter 5
Fairness and equal recognition
Denise G. Raume
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 6374
Chapter 6
Two principles of equal language recognition
Helder De Schutter
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 7587
Chapter 7
On the political and democratic preconditions of equal recognition
Matteo Gianni
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 88100
Chapter 8
Normative political theory, democratic politics and minority rights
Nenad Stojanovi
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101113
Chapter 9
Missing the overlap between theory and practice: Pattens equal recognition in the face of the Catalan case
Albert Branchadell
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 114126
Chapter 10
Equal citizenship, neutrality, and democracy: a reply to critics of Equal Recognition
Alan Patten
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 20, issue 1 (2017), pp. 127141
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Notes on Contributors
Rainer Baubck holds a chair in Social and Political Theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, the European University Institute. His research interests are normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism, and minority rights.
