This book addresses the democratic accommodation of national pluralism through federal rules. The key question is: can federalism be a fair and workable way of articulating multinational societies according to revised liberal-democratic patterns? In recent years, scholarly discussion on this issue has undergone a change. Nowadays, the answer to this question is much more complex than the one that traditional political liberalism and federalism used to give us. In the past, these two political approaches usually addressed the question of political pluralism without seriously including national pluralism in the discussion, a theoretical attitude that has often misrepresented and impoverished the moral discussions and the institutional practices of multinational democratic federations. Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism has been awarded the prize for the best book in 2005 by the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA).
Author(s): Ferran Requejo
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 168
Book cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Political liberalism and multinational democracies......Page 15
1. The quality of democracy in multinational contexts......Page 17
2. Democratic legitimacy and national pluralism......Page 32
Part II: Multinational democracies and federalism......Page 47
3. Federalism, federations and national pluralism......Page 49
4. Plural federalism......Page 66
Part III: Plural federalism and the Spanish Estado de las AutonomÃas......Page 74
5. The Spanish Estado de las AutonomÃas......Page 76
6. Future scenarios for Spanish multinational democracy......Page 86
Notes......Page 105
References......Page 123
Index......Page 132
