An Abuse of Culture: North Korean Settlers, Multiculturalism, and Liberal Democracy

Public Service and Liberal Democracy

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy

Using democracy in empirical work requires accurate measurement. Yet, most policy and academic research presupposes the accuracy of available measures. This article explores judgespecific measurement errors in cross-national indicators of liberal democracy. The authors evaluate the magnitude of these errors in widely used measures of democracy and determine whether their results replicate durin...

Multiculturalism without Culture

This book’s oxymoronic title already encapsulates the core idea forwarded by the author, a leading figure in feminist political theory, although it would have been easier to capture had culture been placed between quotation marks. For it is a multiculturalism shaped by certain notions of culture that Phillips declines: she endorses neither essentialist views of monolithic cultures nor the oppos...

Multiculturalism, Law and the Right to Culture

This is a brief paper on a complex subject. In it I note that there are at least three types of justifications for the right to culture. One is grounded in notions of fair treatment; another in the harm caused to individuals if there is a failure of cultural recognition; and a third in the importance of the inclusion of minority groups for the health of a democracy. I argue that when law is ask...

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