Citizenship in Diverse Societies
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198297703
- ISBN10 019829770X
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 458
- Año de Edición 2000
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
Materias
Filosofía Politica Y Del DerechoCitizenship in Diverse Societies
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Is it possible, in a modern, pluralistic society, to promote common bonds of citizenship while at the same time accommodating and showing respect for ethnocultural diversity? 'Citizenship' and 'diversity' have been two of the major topics of debate in both democratic politics and political theory over the past decade. Much has been written about the importance of citizenship, civic identities, and civic virtues for the functioning of liberal democracies, and alsoabout the need to accommodate the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious pluralism that is a fact of life in most modern states. By and large, however, these two topics have been largely discussed in mutual isolation.
Much of the writing on the issues of both citizenship and diversity remainsrather abstract and general and disconnected from the concrete issues of public policy and institutional design. Citizenship in Diverse Societies examines the specific points of conflict and convergence between concerns for citizenship and diversity in democratic societies and reassesses and refines existing theories of 'diverse citizenship' by examining these theories in the light of actual practices and policies of pluralistic democracies.