Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism

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.

Addressing how democracies can deal with plurality, Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism looks at the political accommodations of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century.

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of sub-national 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

The volume builds bridges and brings together a number of debates that have often taken place separately. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering questi0ons 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, and Wayne Norman.

Ramón Máiz is Professor of Political Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, (Spain). He is the joint editor of Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, and The Construction of Europe, Democracy and Globalisation.