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Fourteen Principles For a Multicultural State

Fourteen Principles For a Multicultural State. Thomas Fleiner Belgrade April 6. The major Issue: To hold or to bring multicultural societies together. we have to ask:. How should they be governed?. Who should govern whom?. And even more explosive: Who should decide, who should govern?.

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Fourteen Principles For a Multicultural State

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  1. Fourteen Principles For a Multicultural State Thomas Fleiner Belgrade April 6

  2. The major Issue: To hold or to bring multicultural societies together we have to ask: How should they be governed? Who should govern whom? And even more explosive: Who should decide, who should govern?

  3. Why is multiculturalism a problem? Do federalism and decentralization help to bring or to hold multicultural societies together?

  4. State of Modernity: all individuals are equal as being Nation-State facing Multiculturalism Egocentric Hobbes What Universal values, but they do not take culture as legitimacy fundament for political identity serious Bearers of unalienable rights Locke What is the main problem? Rational Citoyens Rousseau Exploiters or exploited Marx for all? is good Capable of rea- son and judge- ment Kant Cost-benefit driven Homo oeconomicus

  5. Nation - State Integrating in- to one cultu- re of identity Ignoring Culture Denying Culture Conflict with ethnic minorities

  6. Promoting: shared-rule self-rule? Challenges of the Nation-State with regard to fragmen- tation by diversity Reconciling: conflict ma- nagement power- sharing? What is Legitimacy of multicultural nations ta- kes cultures seriously but is focussing on particular rather than universal values To get legi- timacy from diversi- ties by good for communities? Tolerating: minority protection; affirmative action? us and for our Equalising: collective rights?

  7. The Fourteen Principles To hold a multicultural State together

  8. Legitimacy Rule of Law Shared Rule Self-Rule Democracy

  9. Legitimacy 1. Take cultural diversity seriously 2. Fatherland for minorities 3. Composed Nation 4. Multiple loyalty

  10. Rule of Law 5. The Right to be unequal, or: equal rights versus the right to be equal 6. Four Dimension of Freedom: From, By, To, Within, the State 7. Liberty and Peace

  11. Shared Rule 8. Participation of ethnic Groups In Constitution making 9. Power sharing of cultural communities

  12. Self Rule 10. Autonomy 11. Enhancing diversity to overcome ethnification of politics

  13. Democracy 12. Self-determination of individuals as aim of democracy 13. Value of compromise as alternative to the winner takes all democracy 14. Conflict management

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