Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

Democracy and justice appear to be ubiquitous concepts in the contemporary world. Yet there is no agreement on what they mean and how they could shape solutions to real-world challenges and dilemmas. This course offers an applied political theory approach. It addresses the key contributions in contemporary political theory on democracy and justice and links them to current societal debates, from multiculturalism to linguistic disputes, self-determination demands, gender debates, political responses to the climate emergency, the scope for global justice, and socio-economic injustices.

Associated skills

This course is part of the optional courses itinerary “democracy in diverse societies” that, altogether, develops the following competencies/skills:

BASIC SKILLS:

CB2. That students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competences typically demonstrated through devising and sustaining arguments and solving problems within their field of study.

CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical.

CB4. That students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

CB5. That students have developed those skills needed to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

GENERAL SKILLS:

CG1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

CG3. Knowledge of a second language.

CG6. Interpersonal skills.

CG8. Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.

CG15. Project design and management.

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:

CT1. Identify and analyze critically gender inequality and its intersection with other axes of inequality.

SPECIFIC SKILLS:

EC1. Identify the main theories and approaches of Political Science and Administration.

CE2. Analyze the structure and functioning of political systems.

EC4. Examine the fundamentals of comparative politics.

CE6. Identify citizen behavior and democratic values.

CE8. Interpret contemporary political theories and arguments.

CE9. Interpret the historical dimension of political and social processes.

CE17. Apply the methods and techniques of political and social research.

CE19. Examine the techniques of political communication.

Sustainable Development Goals

Contents

The schedule below lists the lectures and the discussion topics, by week, with the mandatory readings for each also outlined.

We will start off with a general presentation of the course and a review of rival theories of democracy and justice, exploring when these two spheres are compatible. We will then examine in depth two key theories of democracy: republicanism and political liberalism. Having grounded the course in theories of democracy, we will move on to exploring several dimensions of democratic justice, from multicultural to linguistic, national, gender, and ecological. We will end the course with two sessions reflecting upon global and socio-economic justice and equality in the contemporary world.

Teaching Methods

This course places an emphasis on interactive learning and combines several teaching methodologies which overlap in practice. A core teaching technique is simulation-based learning, which consists in replacing real experiences with guided experiences that replicate aspects of the real world. For example, students will simulate being political science advisors of the UK Government, leading political figures of the Catalan and Spanish Governments and the European Commission, and local political leaders designing gender-sensitive public policy. The course also draws on problem-based learning to seek to find solutions to political dilemmas. How do we design a fair country? How do we solve the Catalan crisis? A third teaching methodology is game-based learning, which triggers engagement to enhance learning. For example, two groups defending opposing views on minority language protection will have to convince a jury.

These are combined with invitations to practitioners, from government advisors to policy specialists and activists, who tell us about how they apply normative principles across cases and fields and lead exercises with students. Finally, the weekly lecture is sometimes complemented with case studies to examine in-depth several aspects of democracy and justice within real-world contexts (i.e., Catalonia, Belgium, Scotland, the UK).

Evaluation

• Individual essay 70%
• Attendance and participation in seminar activities and class discussions 30%

[to pass the course, you must attend a minimum of seven sessions –this means attending seven full sessions, including the initial lecture, rather than only showing up for the seminars).

Bibliography and information resources

This list includes some of the key readings we will address each week. You are not expected to read all these articles and books. You are encouraged to read further on the topics that interest you the most. You are strongly encouraged to draw on this bibliography when writing your essay.

Week 1 – What is Democracy? What is Justice?

• Fukuyama, Francis (2021) ‘Against Identity Politics’. Available at https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/francis-fukuyama-against-identity-politics
• Levitsky, Steven and Ziblatt, Daniel (2018) How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Penguin Books. [Also available in Spanish, published by Ariel in 2018]
• List, Christian and Valentini, Laura (2016) ‘The Methodology of Political Theory’, in Cappelem, H., Szab  Gendler, T., and Hawthorne, J. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press. Available at https://personal.lse.ac.uk/list/PDF-files/MethodologyPoliticalTheory.pdf
• Pitkin, Hanna (1967) The Concept of Representation. University of California.
• Sandel, Michael (2010) Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?,  Penguin Books.
• Walzer, Michael (1986) Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. Basic books, 2008.
• Walzer, Michael (1994) Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, University of Notre Dame Press.

Week 2 – Theories of Democracy

• Arendt, Hannah (1958) The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press. [Also available in Catalan, published by Empúries, 2009].
• Berlin, Isaiah (1969) ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press [Also available in Spanish, published by Alianza, 1988]
• Johnson, Pauline (2006) Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere, Routledge.
• Landemore, Hélène (2020) Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press.
• Mansbridge, Jane J. (1983) Beyond Adversary Democracy, University of Chicago Press.
• Mansbridge, Jane J. (2010) ‘The Place of Self-Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 18:1, 64-100.
• Martí, José Luis (2017) ‘Pluralism and Consensus in Deliberative Democracy’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20:5, 556-579.
• Pettit, Philip (1997) Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press [Also available in Catalan, Llibertat i govern: republicanisme, published by Angle, 2010]
• Rawls, John (2020 [1971]) A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press.

• Shklar, Judith (1989) ‘The Liberalism of Fear’, in Rosenblum, Nancy L.  (ed.) Liberalism and the Moral Life, 21-37. Available at https://philarchive.org/archive/SHKTLOv1
• Valentini, Laura (2012) ‘Justice, Disagreement and Democracy’, British Journal of Political Science, 43:1, 177-199. 

Week 3 – Democracy and Cultural Justice: Multiculturalism (Case Study: United Kingdom)

• Barry, Brian (2011) Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, Harvard University Press.
• Cetrà, Daniel (2019) Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders, Palgrave Macmillan, 11-30 (Chapter 1).
• Franco-Guillén, Núria (2016) ‘Selfishness of the Affluent? Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties and Immigration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42:8, 1304-16.
• Lenard, Patti Tamara, and Peter Balint (2022) Debating Multiculturalism: Should There Be Minority Rights?, Oxford University Press.
• Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Taylor, Charles (1992) Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Princeton University Press.
• Tamir, Yael (1995) Liberal Nationalism, Princeton University Press.
• Walzer, Michael (1990) ‘The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism’, Political Theory, 18:1, 6-23.

Week 4 – Democracy and Linguistic Justice (Case Study: Belgium)

• Bianculli, Andrea C., Jordana, Jacint, and Ferrín, Mónica (2021) Linguistic Claims and Political Conflicts: Spanish Labyrinths in the European Context, Routledge. [Also available in Spanish for free download here https://www.cepc.gob.es/publicaciones/monografias/demandas-linguisticas-y-conflicto-politico-en-espana]
• Cetrà, Daniel (2019) Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-55 (Chapter 3) and pp. 125-168 (Chapter 6).
• De Schutter, Helder (2021) ‘Personality and Territoriality in Theory and in Belgium’, Language Problems and Language Planning, 45:2, 218-38.
• De Schutter, Helder, and Robichaud, David (2015) ‘Van Parijsian linguistic justice–context, analysis and critiques, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18:2. 87-112.
• Kymlicka, Will and Patten, Allen (eds.) (2003) Language Rights and Political Theory. Oxford University Press.
• May, Stephen (2011) Language and Minority rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language, Routledge.
• Morales-Gálvez, Sergi and Riera-Gil, Elvira (2019) ‘What are Just Language Policies? The Current Paradigms of Linguistic Justice’, Catalan Social Sciences Review, 11, 39:61. [Also available in Catalan for free download here: https://raco.cat/index.php/REAF/article/view/369994]
• Peled, Yael and Bonotti, Matteo (2019) ‘Sound Reasoning: Why Accent Bias Matters for Democratic Theory’, The Journal of Politics, 81:2, 411-25.
• Van Parijs, Philippe (2011) Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World. Oxford University Press.
• Woolard, Kathryn A. (2016) Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21^st Century Catalonia, Oxford University Press.

Week 5 – Democracy and National Justice I: Federalism and Territorial Accommodation

• The ‘50 Shades of Federalism’ Project http://50shadesoffederalism.com/
• Burgess, Michael (2006) Comparative Federalism. Theory and Practice, Routledge.
• Cetrà, Daniel and Swenden, Wilfried (2021) ‘State Nationalism and Territorial Accommodation in Spain and India’, Regional & Federal Studies, 31:1, 115-137.
• Drake, Anna and McChulloch, Allison (2011) ‘Deliberative Consociationalism in Deeply Divided Societies’, Contemporary Political Theory, 10:3, 372-392.
• Gagnon, Alain-G. and Tully, James (eds.) (2001) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press.
• Hepburn, Eve (2008) ‘The Rise and Fall of a “Europe of the Regions”’, Regional and Federal Studies, 18:5, 537-555.
• Karmis, Dimitrios and Wayne, Norman (eds.) (2005), Theories of Federalism: A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mathieu, Félix, and Guénette, Dave (2018) ‘Introducing a Societal Culture index to Compare Minority Nations’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48:2, 217-43.
• Requejo, Ferran (1999) ‘Cultural Pluralism, Nationalism and Federalism: A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States’, European Journal of Political Research, 35:2, 255-286.
• Swenden, Wilfried (2013) ‘Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States’, Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism, 77-91.
• Zuber, Christina I. (2011) ‘Understanding the Multinational Game: Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federalism’, Comparative Political Studies, 44:5, 546-71.

Week 6 – Democracy and National Justice II: Self-Determination and Secession (Case Studies: Scotland and Catalonia)

• Buchanan, Allen (1997) ‘Theories of secession’, Philosophy & public affairs, 26:1, 31-61.
• Dalle Mulle, Emmanuel and Serrano, Ivan (2019) ‘Between a principled and a consequentialist logic: Theory and practice of secession in Catalonia and Scotland’, Nations and Nationalism, 25:2, 630-651.
• Elias, Anwen and Franco-Guillén, Núria (2021) ‘Justifying Secession in Catalonia: Resolving Grievances or a Means to a Better Future?’, Politics and Governance, 9:4, 453-64.
• Hepburn, Eve (2009) ‘Introduction: Re-conceptualizing sub-state mobilization’, Regional and Federal Studies, 19:4-5, 477-499.
• Keating, Michael (2019) ‘Is a Theory of Self-determination Possible?’, Ethnopolitics, 18:3, 315-323.
• Lecours, André (2021) Nationalism, Secessionism and Autonomy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Liñeira, Robert and Cetrà, Daniel (2015) ‘The Independence Case in Comparative Perspective’, The Political Quarterly, 86:2, 257-64.
• Moore, Margaret (1997) ‘On National Self-determination’, Political Studies, 45:5, 900-13.
• Sanjaume-Calvet, Marc (2020) ‘Moralism in Theories of Secession: A Realist Perspective’, Nations and Nationalism, 26:2, 323-43.
• Waters, Timothy W. (2020) Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World, Yale University Press.

Week 7 – Democracy and Gender Justice

• Butler, Judith (1990) ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’, in Sue-Ellen Case (ed.) Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, Johns Hopkins University Press, 270-282.
• Bryson, Valerie (2013) Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hawkesworth, Mary (2019) Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings, Polity Press, Chapters 5 and 6.
• Okin, Susan Moller (1989) ‘Reason and Feeling in Thinking about Justice’, Ethics, 99:2, 229-49.
• Perez, Caroline Criado (2019) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Random House.
• Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2021) Interseccionalitat: Desigualtats, Llocs i Emocions, Tigre de Paper.
• Young, Iris Marion (1990) Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton University Press, 19-35.
• Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997) Gender & Nation, Sage Publications. Chapter 2.
• West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman (1987) ‘Doing Gender’, Gender & society, 1:2, 125-151.

Week 8 – Democracy and Ecological Justice

• Caney, Simon (2005) ‘Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 18:4, 747-775.
• D’Eaubonne, Françoise (1999) ‘What Could an Ecofeminist Society Be?’, Ethics and the Environment, 4:2, 179-84.
• Dobson, Andrew (2004) Citizenship and the Environment, Oxford University Press.
• Jayachandran, Seema (2015) ‘The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries’, Annual Review of Economics, 7:1, 63-88
• Knight, C. (2011) ‘Climate change and the duties of the disadvantaged: Reply to Caney’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14:4, 531-542
• Miller, David (2009) ‘Global justice and climate change: how should responsibilities be distributed?’, in Grethe B. Peterson (ed.) Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah press, 119-156. 
• Pichler, Melanie (2016) ‘What’s Democracy Got to Do with It? A Political Ecology Perspective on Socio-ecological Justice’ in Melanie Pichler et al. (eds.) Fairness and justice in natural resource politics, Routledge, 45-63.
• Stevenson, Hayley and Dryzek, John S. (2004) Democratizing Global Climate Governance, Cambridge University Press.

• Prado-Fabregat, Elvira (2022) ‘Violència Lenta’, Diari Ara, available at https://www.ara.cat/opinio/violencia-lenta-elvira-prado-fabregat_129_4395722.html

Week 9 – Democracy, Inequality and Global Justice

• Archibugi, Daniele (2004) ‘Cosmopolitan Democracy and Its Critics: A Review’, European Journal of International Relations, 10:3, 437-473.
• Barry, Christian and Valentini, Laura (2009) ‘Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism: A Critique’, Review of International Studies, 35:3, 485-512.
• Bohman, James (2010) Democracy Across Broders: Drom Dêmos to Dêmoi, Mit Press.
• Falk, Richard (2013) Reimagining Humane Global Governance, Routledge.
• Habermas, Jürgen (2001) The Post-National Constellation: Political Essays, Polity Press.
• Held, David (1994) Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Stanford University Press.
• Macdonald, Terry (2008) Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States, Oxford University Press.
• Pogge, Thomas (1992) ‘Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty’, Ethics, 103:1, 48-75.
• Pogge, Thomas (2005) ‘World Poverty and Human Rights’, Ethics and International Affairs, 19:1, 1-7.
• Valentini, Laura (2014) ‘No Global Demos, No Global Democracy? A Systematization and Critique’, Perspectives on Politics, 12:4, 789-807.

Week 10 – Democracy and Socioeconomic Justice

• Ateneu Barcelonès (2022) Martha Nussbaum: Justícia i Emocions. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_Xni5IBow
• Arneson, Richard (2007) ‘Distributive Justice and Basic Capability Equality: “Good enough” is Not Good Enough’, in Kaufman, Alexander (ed.) Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems, Routledge, 27-53.
• Cohen, Gerald Allan (2009) Why Not Socialism?, Princeton University Press.
• Nussbaum, Martha and Sen, Amartya (1993) Th Quality of Life, Clarendon Press.
• Nussbaum, Martha (2011) Creating Capabilities, Harvard University Press.
• Nozick, Robert (1974) Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Basic Books.
• Pickett, Kate, and Wilkinson, Richard (2010) The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Penguin UK.
• Sandel, Michael (2020) The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?, Penguin. [Also available in Spanish published by Debate 2021]
• Sen, Amartya (2008) ‘The Idea of Justice’, Journal of Human Development, 9:3, 331-42.
• Piketty, Thomas (2022) A Brief History of Equality, Harvard University Press. Introduction. Chaps 1, 2,5,6,7 [Also available in Catalan (Edicions62) and Spanish (Deusto Ediciones)]Valentini, Laura (2011) ‘A Paradigm Shift in Theorizing About Justice? A Critique of Sen’, Economics & Philosophy, 27:3, 297-315.

Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

Democracy and justice appear to be ubiquitous concepts in the contemporary world. Yet there is no agreement on what they mean and how they could shape solutions to real-world challenges and dilemmas. This course offers an applied political theory approach. It addresses the key contributions in contemporary political theory on democracy and justice and links them to current societal debates, from multiculturalism to linguistic disputes, self-determination demands, gender debates, political responses to the climate emergency, the scope for global justice, and socio-economic injustices.

Associated skills

This course is part of the optional courses itinerary “democracy in diverse societies” that, altogether, develops the following competencies/skills:

BASIC SKILLS:

CB2. That students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competences typically demonstrated through devising and sustaining arguments and solving problems within their field of study.

CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical.

CB4. That students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

CB5. That students have developed those skills needed to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

GENERAL SKILLS:

CG1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

CG3. Knowledge of a second language.

CG6. Interpersonal skills.

CG8. Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.

CG15. Project design and management.

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:

CT1. Identify and analyze critically gender inequality and its intersection with other axes of inequality.

SPECIFIC SKILLS:

EC1. Identify the main theories and approaches of Political Science and Administration.

CE2. Analyze the structure and functioning of political systems.

EC4. Examine the fundamentals of comparative politics.

CE6. Identify citizen behavior and democratic values.

CE8. Interpret contemporary political theories and arguments.

CE9. Interpret the historical dimension of political and social processes.

CE17. Apply the methods and techniques of political and social research.

CE19. Examine the techniques of political communication.

Sustainable Development Goals

Contents

The schedule below lists the lectures and the discussion topics, by week, with the mandatory readings for each also outlined.

We will start off with a general presentation of the course and a review of rival theories of democracy and justice, exploring when these two spheres are compatible. We will then examine in depth two key theories of democracy: republicanism and political liberalism. Having grounded the course in theories of democracy, we will move on to exploring several dimensions of democratic justice, from multicultural to linguistic, national, gender, and ecological. We will end the course with two sessions reflecting upon global and socio-economic justice and equality in the contemporary world.

Teaching Methods

This course places an emphasis on interactive learning and combines several teaching methodologies which overlap in practice. A core teaching technique is simulation-based learning, which consists in replacing real experiences with guided experiences that replicate aspects of the real world. For example, students will simulate being political science advisors of the UK Government, leading political figures of the Catalan and Spanish Governments and the European Commission, and local political leaders designing gender-sensitive public policy. The course also draws on problem-based learning to seek to find solutions to political dilemmas. How do we design a fair country? How do we solve the Catalan crisis? A third teaching methodology is game-based learning, which triggers engagement to enhance learning. For example, two groups defending opposing views on minority language protection will have to convince a jury.

These are combined with invitations to practitioners, from government advisors to policy specialists and activists, who tell us about how they apply normative principles across cases and fields and lead exercises with students. Finally, the weekly lecture is sometimes complemented with case studies to examine in-depth several aspects of democracy and justice within real-world contexts (i.e., Catalonia, Belgium, Scotland, the UK).

Evaluation

• Individual essay 70%
• Attendance and participation in seminar activities and class discussions 30%

[to pass the course, you must attend a minimum of seven sessions –this means attending seven full sessions, including the initial lecture, rather than only showing up for the seminars).

Bibliography and information resources

This list includes some of the key readings we will address each week. You are not expected to read all these articles and books. You are encouraged to read further on the topics that interest you the most. You are strongly encouraged to draw on this bibliography when writing your essay.

Week 1 – What is Democracy? What is Justice?

• Fukuyama, Francis (2021) ‘Against Identity Politics’. Available at https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/francis-fukuyama-against-identity-politics
• Levitsky, Steven and Ziblatt, Daniel (2018) How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Penguin Books. [Also available in Spanish, published by Ariel in 2018]
• List, Christian and Valentini, Laura (2016) ‘The Methodology of Political Theory’, in Cappelem, H., Szab  Gendler, T., and Hawthorne, J. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press. Available at https://personal.lse.ac.uk/list/PDF-files/MethodologyPoliticalTheory.pdf
• Pitkin, Hanna (1967) The Concept of Representation. University of California.
• Sandel, Michael (2010) Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?,  Penguin Books.
• Walzer, Michael (1986) Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. Basic books, 2008.
• Walzer, Michael (1994) Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, University of Notre Dame Press.

Week 2 – Theories of Democracy

• Arendt, Hannah (1958) The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press. [Also available in Catalan, published by Empúries, 2009].
• Berlin, Isaiah (1969) ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press [Also available in Spanish, published by Alianza, 1988]
• Johnson, Pauline (2006) Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere, Routledge.
• Landemore, Hélène (2020) Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press.
• Mansbridge, Jane J. (1983) Beyond Adversary Democracy, University of Chicago Press.
• Mansbridge, Jane J. (2010) ‘The Place of Self-Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 18:1, 64-100.
• Martí, José Luis (2017) ‘Pluralism and Consensus in Deliberative Democracy’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20:5, 556-579.
• Pettit, Philip (1997) Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press [Also available in Catalan, Llibertat i govern: republicanisme, published by Angle, 2010]
• Rawls, John (2020 [1971]) A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press.

• Shklar, Judith (1989) ‘The Liberalism of Fear’, in Rosenblum, Nancy L.  (ed.) Liberalism and the Moral Life, 21-37. Available at https://philarchive.org/archive/SHKTLOv1
• Valentini, Laura (2012) ‘Justice, Disagreement and Democracy’, British Journal of Political Science, 43:1, 177-199. 

Week 3 – Democracy and Cultural Justice: Multiculturalism (Case Study: United Kingdom)

• Barry, Brian (2011) Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, Harvard University Press.
• Cetrà, Daniel (2019) Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders, Palgrave Macmillan, 11-30 (Chapter 1).
• Franco-Guillén, Núria (2016) ‘Selfishness of the Affluent? Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties and Immigration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42:8, 1304-16.
• Lenard, Patti Tamara, and Peter Balint (2022) Debating Multiculturalism: Should There Be Minority Rights?, Oxford University Press.
• Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Taylor, Charles (1992) Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Princeton University Press.
• Tamir, Yael (1995) Liberal Nationalism, Princeton University Press.
• Walzer, Michael (1990) ‘The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism’, Political Theory, 18:1, 6-23.

Week 4 – Democracy and Linguistic Justice (Case Study: Belgium)

• Bianculli, Andrea C., Jordana, Jacint, and Ferrín, Mónica (2021) Linguistic Claims and Political Conflicts: Spanish Labyrinths in the European Context, Routledge. [Also available in Spanish for free download here https://www.cepc.gob.es/publicaciones/monografias/demandas-linguisticas-y-conflicto-politico-en-espana]
• Cetrà, Daniel (2019) Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-55 (Chapter 3) and pp. 125-168 (Chapter 6).
• De Schutter, Helder (2021) ‘Personality and Territoriality in Theory and in Belgium’, Language Problems and Language Planning, 45:2, 218-38.
• De Schutter, Helder, and Robichaud, David (2015) ‘Van Parijsian linguistic justice–context, analysis and critiques, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18:2. 87-112.
• Kymlicka, Will and Patten, Allen (eds.) (2003) Language Rights and Political Theory. Oxford University Press.
• May, Stephen (2011) Language and Minority rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language, Routledge.
• Morales-Gálvez, Sergi and Riera-Gil, Elvira (2019) ‘What are Just Language Policies? The Current Paradigms of Linguistic Justice’, Catalan Social Sciences Review, 11, 39:61. [Also available in Catalan for free download here: https://raco.cat/index.php/REAF/article/view/369994]
• Peled, Yael and Bonotti, Matteo (2019) ‘Sound Reasoning: Why Accent Bias Matters for Democratic Theory’, The Journal of Politics, 81:2, 411-25.
• Van Parijs, Philippe (2011) Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World. Oxford University Press.
• Woolard, Kathryn A. (2016) Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21^st Century Catalonia, Oxford University Press.

Week 5 – Democracy and National Justice I: Federalism and Territorial Accommodation

• The ‘50 Shades of Federalism’ Project http://50shadesoffederalism.com/
• Burgess, Michael (2006) Comparative Federalism. Theory and Practice, Routledge.
• Cetrà, Daniel and Swenden, Wilfried (2021) ‘State Nationalism and Territorial Accommodation in Spain and India’, Regional & Federal Studies, 31:1, 115-137.
• Drake, Anna and McChulloch, Allison (2011) ‘Deliberative Consociationalism in Deeply Divided Societies’, Contemporary Political Theory, 10:3, 372-392.
• Gagnon, Alain-G. and Tully, James (eds.) (2001) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press.
• Hepburn, Eve (2008) ‘The Rise and Fall of a “Europe of the Regions”’, Regional and Federal Studies, 18:5, 537-555.
• Karmis, Dimitrios and Wayne, Norman (eds.) (2005), Theories of Federalism: A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mathieu, Félix, and Guénette, Dave (2018) ‘Introducing a Societal Culture index to Compare Minority Nations’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48:2, 217-43.
• Requejo, Ferran (1999) ‘Cultural Pluralism, Nationalism and Federalism: A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States’, European Journal of Political Research, 35:2, 255-286.
• Swenden, Wilfried (2013) ‘Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States’, Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism, 77-91.
• Zuber, Christina I. (2011) ‘Understanding the Multinational Game: Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federalism’, Comparative Political Studies, 44:5, 546-71.

Week 6 – Democracy and National Justice II: Self-Determination and Secession (Case Studies: Scotland and Catalonia)

• Buchanan, Allen (1997) ‘Theories of secession’, Philosophy & public affairs, 26:1, 31-61.
• Dalle Mulle, Emmanuel and Serrano, Ivan (2019) ‘Between a principled and a consequentialist logic: Theory and practice of secession in Catalonia and Scotland’, Nations and Nationalism, 25:2, 630-651.
• Elias, Anwen and Franco-Guillén, Núria (2021) ‘Justifying Secession in Catalonia: Resolving Grievances or a Means to a Better Future?’, Politics and Governance, 9:4, 453-64.
• Hepburn, Eve (2009) ‘Introduction: Re-conceptualizing sub-state mobilization’, Regional and Federal Studies, 19:4-5, 477-499.
• Keating, Michael (2019) ‘Is a Theory of Self-determination Possible?’, Ethnopolitics, 18:3, 315-323.
• Lecours, André (2021) Nationalism, Secessionism and Autonomy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Liñeira, Robert and Cetrà, Daniel (2015) ‘The Independence Case in Comparative Perspective’, The Political Quarterly, 86:2, 257-64.
• Moore, Margaret (1997) ‘On National Self-determination’, Political Studies, 45:5, 900-13.
• Sanjaume-Calvet, Marc (2020) ‘Moralism in Theories of Secession: A Realist Perspective’, Nations and Nationalism, 26:2, 323-43.
• Waters, Timothy W. (2020) Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World, Yale University Press.

Week 7 – Democracy and Gender Justice

• Butler, Judith (1990) ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’, in Sue-Ellen Case (ed.) Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, Johns Hopkins University Press, 270-282.
• Bryson, Valerie (2013) Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hawkesworth, Mary (2019) Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings, Polity Press, Chapters 5 and 6.
• Okin, Susan Moller (1989) ‘Reason and Feeling in Thinking about Justice’, Ethics, 99:2, 229-49.
• Perez, Caroline Criado (2019) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Random House.
• Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2021) Interseccionalitat: Desigualtats, Llocs i Emocions, Tigre de Paper.
• Young, Iris Marion (1990) Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton University Press, 19-35.
• Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997) Gender & Nation, Sage Publications. Chapter 2.
• West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman (1987) ‘Doing Gender’, Gender & society, 1:2, 125-151.

Week 8 – Democracy and Ecological Justice

• Caney, Simon (2005) ‘Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 18:4, 747-775.
• D’Eaubonne, Françoise (1999) ‘What Could an Ecofeminist Society Be?’, Ethics and the Environment, 4:2, 179-84.
• Dobson, Andrew (2004) Citizenship and the Environment, Oxford University Press.
• Jayachandran, Seema (2015) ‘The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries’, Annual Review of Economics, 7:1, 63-88
• Knight, C. (2011) ‘Climate change and the duties of the disadvantaged: Reply to Caney’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14:4, 531-542
• Miller, David (2009) ‘Global justice and climate change: how should responsibilities be distributed?’, in Grethe B. Peterson (ed.) Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah press, 119-156. 
• Pichler, Melanie (2016) ‘What’s Democracy Got to Do with It? A Political Ecology Perspective on Socio-ecological Justice’ in Melanie Pichler et al. (eds.) Fairness and justice in natural resource politics, Routledge, 45-63.
• Stevenson, Hayley and Dryzek, John S. (2004) Democratizing Global Climate Governance, Cambridge University Press.

• Prado-Fabregat, Elvira (2022) ‘Violència Lenta’, Diari Ara, available at https://www.ara.cat/opinio/violencia-lenta-elvira-prado-fabregat_129_4395722.html

Week 9 – Democracy, Inequality and Global Justice

• Archibugi, Daniele (2004) ‘Cosmopolitan Democracy and Its Critics: A Review’, European Journal of International Relations, 10:3, 437-473.
• Barry, Christian and Valentini, Laura (2009) ‘Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism: A Critique’, Review of International Studies, 35:3, 485-512.
• Bohman, James (2010) Democracy Across Broders: Drom Dêmos to Dêmoi, Mit Press.
• Falk, Richard (2013) Reimagining Humane Global Governance, Routledge.
• Habermas, Jürgen (2001) The Post-National Constellation: Political Essays, Polity Press.
• Held, David (1994) Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Stanford University Press.
• Macdonald, Terry (2008) Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States, Oxford University Press.
• Pogge, Thomas (1992) ‘Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty’, Ethics, 103:1, 48-75.
• Pogge, Thomas (2005) ‘World Poverty and Human Rights’, Ethics and International Affairs, 19:1, 1-7.
• Valentini, Laura (2014) ‘No Global Demos, No Global Democracy? A Systematization and Critique’, Perspectives on Politics, 12:4, 789-807.

Week 10 – Democracy and Socioeconomic Justice

• Ateneu Barcelonès (2022) Martha Nussbaum: Justícia i Emocions. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_Xni5IBow
• Arneson, Richard (2007) ‘Distributive Justice and Basic Capability Equality: “Good enough” is Not Good Enough’, in Kaufman, Alexander (ed.) Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems, Routledge, 27-53.
• Cohen, Gerald Allan (2009) Why Not Socialism?, Princeton University Press.
• Nussbaum, Martha and Sen, Amartya (1993) Th Quality of Life, Clarendon Press.
• Nussbaum, Martha (2011) Creating Capabilities, Harvard University Press.
• Nozick, Robert (1974) Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Basic Books.
• Pickett, Kate, and Wilkinson, Richard (2010) The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Penguin UK.
• Sandel, Michael (2020) The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?, Penguin. [Also available in Spanish published by Debate 2021]
• Sen, Amartya (2008) ‘The Idea of Justice’, Journal of Human Development, 9:3, 331-42.
• Piketty, Thomas (2022) A Brief History of Equality, Harvard University Press. Introduction. Chaps 1, 2,5,6,7 [Also available in Catalan (Edicions62) and Spanish (Deusto Ediciones)]Valentini, Laura (2011) ‘A Paradigm Shift in Theorizing About Justice? A Critique of Sen’, Economics & Philosophy, 27:3, 297-315.