2016/17
805 - Masters Centre of the Department of Political and Social Sciences
32262 - Current Research on Diverse Democracies
Montserrat Guibernau Berdun
Contents
Session 1
Organizational matters and thematic introduction
Modood, T., 2007: Multiculturalism, Cambridge, 37–62**
Tully, J., 2003: Identity politics, in: Ball, T. and Bellamy, R., eds.: The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 517-533*
Session 2
Diversity, cleavage structures, and political conflict
Brubaker, R., 2012: Religion and nationalism: four approaches, Nations and Nationalism, 18 (1), 2–20
Kriesi, H. et al., 2012: Political Conflict in Western Europe, Cambridge, 3–35
Lipset, S. M. and Rokkan, S., 1967: Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction, in: Lipset, S. M. and Rokkan, S., eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments, New York, 1–64 (esp. 1–6, 26–50)**
May, S., 2012: Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language, 2nd edition, London, 132–174
Rokkan, S., 1999: State-Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe, Oxford, 149–190**
Ross, M. H., 2007: Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict, Cambridge, 1–30*
Session 3
Nation-states, nationalism, and the ‘dark side of democracy’
Calhoun, C., 1997: Nationalism, Minneapolis, 66-85
Dahl, R. A., 1989: Democracy and its Critics, New Haven, CT, 193-209*
Gellner, E., 2006: Nations and Nationalism, Oxford, 1–7, 38–61**
Jennings, I., 1958: The Approach to Self-Government, Cambridge, 41-58
Linz, J.J and Stepan, A., 1995: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe, Baltimore, 16 –37
Mann, M., 2005: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing, Cambridge, 1–33*
Session 4
Complex diversity
Allardt, E., 1980: Prerequisites and Consequences of Ethnic Mobilization in Modern Society. A Comparative Study of the Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe, Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 3/1, 1–20
Kraus, P. A., 2012: The politics of complex diversity: a European perspective, Ethnicities 12 (1), 3–25*
Kymlicka, W., 2011: Multicultural citizenship within multination states, Ethnicities 11 (3), 281–302**
Ross, M. H., 2007: Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict, Cambridge, 30–62
Therborn, G., 1995: European Modernity and Beyond, London, 34–54**
Tully, J., 2008: Public Philosophy in a New Key, Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom, Cambridge, 160–184
Session 5
5.1 Multinational democracies
McGarry, J., O’Leary, B., and Simeon, R., 2008: Integration or accommodation? The enduring debate in conflict regulation, in: Choudry, S., ed., Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?, Oxford, 41–90**
Stepan, A., 1998: Modern multinational democracies: transcending a Gellnerian oxymoron, in: J.A. Hall, ed., The State of the Nation, Cambridge, 219–239**
Taylor, C., 1994: Reconciling the Solitudes. Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism, Montreal & Kingston, 155–186
Tully, J., 2008: Multinational democracies: an introductory sketch, in: Tully, J.: Public Philosophy in a New Key. Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom, Cambridge, 185–220*
5.2 Immigration societies
Bail, C.A., 2008: The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe, American Sociological Review, 73, 37–59**
Banting, K. and Kymlicka, W., 2006: Introduction: Multiculturalism and the welfare state: setting the context, in: Banting, K. and Kymlicka, W., eds., Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies, Oxford, 1–45*
Geddes, A., 2003: The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe, London, 1–28
Grillo, R., 2010: Contesting Diversity in Europe: Alternative Regimes and Moral Orders, MMG Working Paper10-02**
Session 6
6.1 Immigration and ‘culture wars’ in the USA
Davis, M., 2000: Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City, London, 111–136**
Huntington, S. P., 2004: Who Are We? The Challenges to American National Identity, New York, 221–256**
Schmidt Sr., R., 2015: Immigrants and the Reframing of Language and National Identity Politics in the United States, in: Spaeti, C., ed., Language and Identity Politics: A Cross-Atlantic Perspective, New York, 139–157*
Salomone, R. C., 2010: True American: Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children, Cambridge, MA, 98–165
6.2 Immigration and Islam in Europe
Kastoryano, R., 2004: Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and Germany, International Migration Review, 38 (3), 1234–1255**
Koopmans, R. and Statham, P., 2000: Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims-making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany, in: Koopmans, R. and Statham, P., eds., Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives, Oxford, 189–232**
Miera, F. and Sala Pala, V., 2009: The construction of Islam as a public issue in western European countries through the prism of the Muhammad cartoons controversy: A comparison between France and Germany, Ethnicities, 9 (3), 383–408
Zolberg, A. R., 2008: How Many Exceptionalisms? Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis, Philadelphia, PA, 286–319**
Session 7
7.1 The Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states
Brubaker, R., 1996: Nationalism Reframed: Nationalism and the National Question in the New Europe, Cambridge, 107–147**
Galbreath, D. J. and Muiznieks, N., 2009: Latvia: managing post-imperial minorities, in: Rechel, B., ed., Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe, London, 135–150*
Laitin, D., D., 1998: Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad, Ithaca, NY, 263–299
Sasse, G., 2008: The politics of EU conditionality: the norm of minority protection during and beyond accession, European Journal of Public Policy, 15 (6), 842–860**
7.2 Indigenous governance in Canada
Alfred, T. and Corntassel, J., 2005: Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism, Government and Opposition, 40 (4), 597–614
Coulthard, G.S., 2014: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, Minneapolis, 1–24
Newhouse, D.R. and Belanger, Y.D., 2010: Beyond the “Indian” Problem: Aboriginal Peoples and the Transformation of Canada, in: Courtney, J.C. and Smith, D.E., eds., Canadian Politics, Oxford, 339–357**
Papillon, M., 2009: The (Re)Emergence of Aboriginal Governments, in: Bickerton, J. and Gagnon, A.-G., eds., Canadian Politics, 5th edition, Toronto, 179–196**
Session 8
8.1 Between accommodation and secession: Quebec
Caron, J.F. and Laforest, G., 2009: Canada and Multinational Federalism: From the Spirit of 1982 to Stephen Harper’s Open Federalism, in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 15 (1), 27–55*
Gagnon, A.-G., 2008: The case for multinational federalism: beyond the all-encompassing nation, Milton Park, 2010, 52–66**
Gagnon, A.-G. and Iacovino, R., 2007: Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec, Toronto, 20–56
Kennedy, J., 2013: Liberal nationalisms: empire, state, and civil society in Scotland and Quebec, Montreal, 150–178**
8.2 Between accommodation and secession: Scotland
Flamini, R., 2013: Scotland's Independence Bid: History, Prospects, Challenges, World Affairs, 176 (1), 57–63**
Keating, M., 2009: The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union, Oxford, 79–100*
McCrone, D., 2012: Scotland out of the Union? The rise and rise of the nationalist agenda, The Political Quarterly, 83, 69–76
Preston, P., 2008: Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe, in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10, 717–728
Session 9
9.1 Between accommodation and secession: Catalonia
Greer, S., 2007: Nationalism and Self-Government: The Politics of Autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia, Albany, NY, 161–178
Kraus, P. A., 2015: Caught in the Minority Trap: Limits of Territorial Autonomy, in: Basta, K., McGarry, J., and Simeon, R., eds.: Assessing Territorial Pluralism, Vancouver, 74–96**
Serrano, I., 2015: Catalonia: a failure of accommodation?, in: Nagel, K.-J. and Rixen, S., eds., Catalonia in Spain and Europe: Is There a Way to Independence, Baden-Baden, 98–114**
Requejo, F. and Sanjaume, M., 2015: Recognition and Political Accommodation: from Regionalism to Secessionism – the Catalan Case, in: Grégoire, J.-F. and Jewkes, M., eds., Recognition and Redistribution in Multinational Federations, Leuven, 107–132*
9.2 General discussion and conclusion
* compulsory reading
** recommended reading
Bibliography and information resources
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