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  • Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies

    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a broad range ... Read more

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  • Religious Schools in Europe

    Institutional Opportunities and Contemporary Challenges

    The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of education, including the opportunities to create and operate faith-based schools. However, as European societies become more religiously diverse and ‘less religious’ at the same time, the role of faith-based schools is increasingly being contested. Serious tensions have emerged between those who ardently support religious schools in ... Read more

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  • Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies

    Edited by Marcel Maussen, Ralph Grillo ...
    Series series Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
    This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate "offensive", "blasphemous" or "hate" speech, especially, though not exclusively where such speech is thought to be offensive to members of ethnic and religious minorities.The themes addressed are of great significance for contemporary societies in many ... Read more

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  • Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. Locating actual practices and interpretations which occur in jurisprudence and in public discussion, this ... Read more

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  • Multiculturalism

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    by Ali Rattansi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Uneasy Partners

    Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada

    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict ... Read more

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  • Multicultiphobia

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  • Extreme Speech and Democracy

    Edited by Ivan Hare, James Weinstein ...
    A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ... Read more

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