Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy: Alan Patten and His Critics

ISBN-13: 9780367592677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

Sergi Morales-G?lvez; Nenad Stojanovic

Opis

This collection is a critical review of Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition. Contributors question its relevance to public policy debates, its account of neutrality and its assumption about democracy. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Alan Patten’s theory of equal recognition and its contribution to the debate over multiculturalism Sergi Morales-Gálvez and Nenad Stojanović  2. Unequal but fair? Cultural recognition and self-government rights Rainer Bauböck  3. Neutrality, autonomy, and power Eldar Sarajlic  4. Neutrality of what? Chiara Cordelli  5. Dispositional neutrality and minority rights Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen  6. Fairness and equal recognition Denise Réaume  7. Two principles of equal language recognition Helder De Schutter  8. On the political and democratic preconditions of equal recognition Matteo Gianni  9. Normative political theory, democratic politics and minority rights Nenad Stojanović  10. Missing the overlap between theory and practice: Patten’s Equal Recognition in the face of the  Catalan case Albert Branchadell  11. Equal citizenship, neutrality, and democracy: a reply to critics of Equal Recognition Alan Patten

O autorze

Sergi Morales-Gálvez is a PhD Research Scholar at the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy of 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 Stojanović is 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.