Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era

by Michael Keating

Overview

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of sovereignty and of the state itself to meet the twin challenges of recognition of nationality and of democracy. Drawing on the experience of four plurinational state - United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - and of the European Union, he analyses the challenges of plurinationalism and its recognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199275342
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/27/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

University of Aberdeen

Table of Contents

1. Nations and Sovereignty2. In Search of the Ancient Constitution. State and Nation in Historiographical Contention3. What Do the Nations Want? Nationalist Aspirations and Transnational Integration4. Asymmetrical Government and the Problem of Deep Diversity5. Beyond Sovereignty. Nations in the European Commonwealth6. Plurinational Democracy

Editorial Reviews

"Keating's methodology is impressively eclectic and the range of issues he discusses is wide ... major insights into the impulses which generate demands for regionalism."—Regional and Federal Studies

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