The Public Legitimacy Of Minority Claims

Author : Plamen Makariev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317292685

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The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims by Plamen Makariev Pdf

Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Unassimilated, facing the cultural "non-transparency" of their lifeworlds, and usually without autonomy, their problems are quite different from those in Western Europe and North America. This book presents a study of public policies concerning the national, ethnic, and religious minorities in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the opportunities available for applying the model of deliberative democracy to the domain of designing and realizing minority policies. It examines the possibility that minority groups can influence – and ideally even pre-decide – minority policies by legitimizing claims concerning their needs and rights in a way that leaves democratic public opinion no choice but to support them. Adopting a novel approach to the public legitimization of minority claims, it proposes that the general public’s evaluation of the credibility of minority claims should focus on the procedural qualities of the intra-group (ethical-political) discourses through which these claims are articulated and substantiated. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of public policy, minority politics, the politics of Eastern Europe, political theory and comparative politics.

Author : Plamen Makariev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317292692

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The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims by Plamen Makariev Pdf

Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Unassimilated, facing the cultural "non-transparency" of their lifeworlds, and usually without autonomy, their problems are quite different from those in Western Europe and North America. This book presents a study of public policies concerning the national, ethnic, and religious minorities in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the opportunities available for applying the model of deliberative democracy to the domain of designing and realizing minority policies. It examines the possibility that minority groups can influence – and ideally even pre-decide – minority policies by legitimizing claims concerning their needs and rights in a way that leaves democratic public opinion no choice but to support them. Adopting a novel approach to the public legitimization of minority claims, it proposes that the general public’s evaluation of the credibility of minority claims should focus on the procedural qualities of the intra-group (ethical-political) discourses through which these claims are articulated and substantiated. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of public policy, minority politics, the politics of Eastern Europe, political theory and comparative politics.

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622458

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Multicultural Citizenship by Will Kymlicka Pdf

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.

Author : United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D035326161

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Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights by United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

"The present guide offers information related to norms and mechanisms developed to protect the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. It includes detailed information about procedures and forums in which minority issues may be raised to minorities and by also covering selected specialized agencies and regional mechanisms, the present Guide complements information contained in Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society"--Introduction.

Author : Charity Butcher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442250222

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The Handbook of Cross-Border Ethnic and Religious Affinities by Charity Butcher Pdf

Increasingly, ethnic and religious variables are taken into account to explain conflict and relations between nations. However, ethnic and religious groups exist beyond the confines of frontiers. In Africa, for example, hundreds of ethnic groups were divided by colonial borders, and many retained kinship connections to their brethren in other countries, thus creating “cross-border ethnic/religious affinity.” Such cross-border connections affect a variety of foreign policy, from diplomacy to the use of force. An internal problem can spread to other states, or external actors can become involved in domestic disputes due to such factors. Therefore data on cross-border connections are essential to measure and assess their actual or potential effects on foreign policy or conflict. This unique resource serves both qualitative and quantitative researchers. For ease of use, it is divided in sections for each region of world, with the entries organized by pairs of contiguous countries. Each entry for a pair of countries briefly discusses the ethnic and religious groups that are common to both countries and the historical and current connections between these groups. The entries are organized based on the Correlates of War country codes, which are widely used by researchers and allow for country pairs to be organized geographically within each section to facilitate easy use of the data.

Author : Erik Bleich,Irene Bloemraad,Els de Graauw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315311272

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Migrants, Minorities, and the Media by Erik Bleich,Irene Bloemraad,Els de Graauw Pdf

The media inform the public, help political and social actors communicate with each other, influence perceptions of pressing issues, depict topics and people in particular ways, and may shape political views and participation. Given these critical functions that the media play in society, this book asks how the media represent migrants and minorities. What information do the media communicate about them? What are the implications of media coverage for participation in the public sphere? In the past, researchers studying migrants and minorities have rarely engaged in systematic media analysis. This volume advances analytical strategies focused on information, representation, and participation to examine the media, migrants, and minorities, and it offers a set of compelling original analyses of multiple minority groups from countries in Europe, North America, and East Asia, considering both traditional newspapers and new social media. The contributors analyze the framing and type of information that the media provide about particular groups or about issues related to migration and diversity; they examine how the media convey or construct particular depictions of minorities and immigrants, including negative portrayals; and they interrogate whether and how the media provide space for minorities’ participation in a public sphere where they can advance their interests and identities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Yasutomo Morigiwa,Fumihiko Ishiyama,Tetsu Sakurai
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3515085041

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Universal Minority Rights? by Yasutomo Morigiwa,Fumihiko Ishiyama,Tetsu Sakurai Pdf

"Proceedings of the fifth Kobe lectures, Tokyo and Kyoto, December 1998."--T.p.

Author : Michael Hornsby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137498809

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Revitalizing Minority Languages by Michael Hornsby Pdf

New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question. This volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three minority languages: Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287169403

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The Participation of Minorities in Public Life by Council of Europe Pdf

Can national minorities participation in decision-making processes be achieved in any constitutional context ? Can developing international standards assist governments in devising national policies? What are the challenges if states are to use cultural autonomy to improve minority participation? This publication presents The UniDem Seminar on The participation of minorities in public life, which took place in Zagreb on 18 and 19 May 2007, discussed ways of answering these topical questions. This publication contains the reports presented and discussed at the UniDem Seminar organized by the European Commission for Democracy through law (the Venice Commission), under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia and in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia, the University of Zagreb and the University of Glasgow.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee to Review Research on Police Policy and Practices
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309289658

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Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee to Review Research on Police Policy and Practices Pdf

Because police are the most visible face of government power for most citizens, they are expected to deal effectively with crime and disorder and to be impartial. Producing justice through the fair, and restrained use of their authority. The standards by which the public judges police success have become more exacting and challenging. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing explores police work in the new century. It replaces myths with research findings and provides recommendations for updated policy and practices to guide it. The book provides answers to the most basic questions: What do police do? It reviews how police work is organized, explores the expanding responsibilities of police, examines the increasing diversity among police employees, and discusses the complex interactions between officers and citizens. It also addresses such topics as community policing, use of force, racial profiling, and evaluates the success of common police techniques, such as focusing on crime "hot spots." It goes on to look at the issue of legitimacyâ€"how the public gets information about police work, and how police are viewed by different groups, and how police can gain community trust. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing will be important to anyone concerned about police work: policy makers, administrators, educators, police supervisors and officers, journalists, and interested citizens.

Author : Marek Zirk-Sadowski,Bartosz Wojciechowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317008880

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Towards Recognition of Minority Groups by Marek Zirk-Sadowski,Bartosz Wojciechowski Pdf

This volume analyses current debates concerning problems in the nature, justification, and legal protection of human rights for minorities, with reference to the issues surrounding social milieu as a source of any legitimized law, which is in itself in need of legal recognition as well as being an object of legal protection. With contributions from a global network of scientists across several continents, the work examines the debate dedicated to the understanding of the normative framework, expressed in terms of human rights that guarantee autonomous action in public and private for minority groups as well as individuals. The chapters go on to study the particular claims that need to be audible and visible for others in the public sphere with reference to the legal protection of human rights. The work concludes with the completion of an interpretative circle debating the issues of legal consensus and legal identity with respect to the specificity of the patterns and modes guiding human interactions. Going beyond the legal analysis to discuss communication strategies in human rights, this collection will be of great interest to those studying the philosophy and theory of law, practical philosophy in general, political sciences and theory of democracy.

Author : Sergi Morales-Gálvez,Nenad Stojanović
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351624381

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Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy by Sergi Morales-Gálvez,Nenad Stojanović Pdf

Multiculturalism is not à la mode nowadays. It is attacked by both right-wing populists and mainstream politicians and leaders of liberal democracies. Indeed, conflicts surrounding cultural diversity and recognition are among the most salient issues in contemporary societies. Should liberal democracies recognise specific cultural rights of minorities? If so, should they grant rights only to indigenous national minorities or also to immigrants? Is such a recognition compatible with the basic liberal principle of state neutrality? Practical questions of this kind are in quest of sound theoretical foundations. Alan Patten’s approach to multiculturalism, developed in Equal Recognition (2014), is the most recent and prominent example of such an effort. Considered “the most important contribution to the philosophy of cultural diversity since Will Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship”, Patten’s work elaborates new and original conceptions of culture and liberal neutrality. It reasserts the case in favour of liberal multiculturalism and applies its theoretical framework to concrete contemporary issues, such as language rights, federalism, secession, and immigrant integration. This collection presents a critical review of Patten’s approach to cultural plurality. The critics question the overall normative strategy of Equal Recognition, its account of neutrality, especially with regards to language rights, its assumptions about democracy and, finally, its relevance to public policy debates. It will be of interest to political scientists, philosophers, and legal theorists, and will inspire students and politicians alike. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet,Marko Valenta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107159129

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Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Post-Socialist Southeastern Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet,Marko Valenta Pdf

Southeast European politics cannot be understood without considering ethnic minorities. This book is a comprehensive introduction to ethnic political parties.

Author : Lorraine Mazerolle,Elise Sargeant,Adrian Cherney,Sarah Bennett,Kristina Murphy,Emma Antrobus,Peter Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319045436

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Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing by Lorraine Mazerolle,Elise Sargeant,Adrian Cherney,Sarah Bennett,Kristina Murphy,Emma Antrobus,Peter Martin Pdf

This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including: · problem-oriented policing · patrol · restorative justice · reassurance policing · and community policing. Through these examples, the authors also examine some of the barriers for implementing procedurally just ways of interacting with citizens, and offer practical suggestions for reform. This work will be of interest for researchers in criminology and criminal justice focused on policing as well as policymakers.

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ethnic relations
ISBN : 0860761592

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Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice by Will Kymlicka Pdf