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Klappentext This book is a study of how some of the world's leading democratic states have responded to the challenge of territorial or sub-national movements seeking to increase the salience of cultural differences - ethnic, linguistic and regional identity - on the national agenda. International experts explore the various ways that cultural differences have acquired political significance and how these are managed by democratic states in every region of the world.The nation state is now faced with unprecedented pressures. The flourishing polities which encourage self-determination and pluralism in the form of politicized sub-national movements, also demand, in some degree, the re-negotiation of the national bargain. This work explores these issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Dennis Austin and Michael O'Neill: Introduction: Democracy and Cultural Diversity 2: Alain Gagnon: Unity versus Diversity in Canada under Trudeau and Chrétien 3: Darren Wallis: Political Management of Diversity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico 4: Donna Lee Van Cott: Constitutional Reform and Ethnic Rights: Latin America 5: Montserrat Guibernau: The Politics of Identity in Democratic Spain: Catalonia and the Basque Country 6: Michael O'Neill: From Dicey to Devolution: Managing Territorial Diversity in Britain 7: Clive Church: Switzerland: A Paradigm in Evolution 8: Michael O'Neill: Language, Ethnicity and Nationality in Belgium 9: Desmond Thomas: Language and National Unity in Slovakia 10: Dennis Austin: Ghana in the 1990s: Un Beau Voyage? 11: Martin Dent: Democracy, Federalism and Ethnic Rivalry in Nigeria 12: Andrew Rigby: Lebanon 13: Anirudha Gupta: India: Democracy and Dissent 14: David Seah: Malaysia: Dilemmas of Integration 15: Richard Bellamy: Dealing with Difference: Four Models of Pluralist Politics
