Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination write by Ulrike Barten. This book was released on 2014-09-23. Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book questions the classic idea of self-determination – the right to self-determination is a right of peoples, not of minorities – by examining the content of the right to self-determination and the content of minority rights. Self-determination has four dimensions: the political, the economic, the social and the cultural dimensions. Minorities have minority rights that touch on most aspects of life as a member of a minority. If there is an overlap between minority rights and the different dimensions of self-determination, the concept that the right to self-determination is only applicable to peoples loses credibility. No global and general conclusion is envisaged; there are restrictions in place. The work is limited to the European framework and is further restricted to classic minorities. The argument is based on a legitimacy and justice approach. The analysis in this book shows that some minority rights overlap with the different dimensions of internal self-determination. In short, classic minorities in Europe have a right to internal self-determination.
Minority Rights, Majority Rule
Minority Rights, Majority Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights, Majority Rule write by Sarah A. Binder. This book was released on 1997-06-13. Minority Rights, Majority Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the US Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate, minorities quite often call the shots, empowered by the filibuster to frustrate the majority. Why did the two chambers develop such distinctive legislative styles? Conventional wisdom suggests that differences in the size and workload of the House and Senate led the two chambers to develop very different rules of procedure. Sarah Binder offers an alternative, partisan theory to explain the creation and suppression of minority rights, showing that contests between partisan coalitions have throughout congressional history altered the distribution of procedural rights. Most importantly, new majorities inherit procedural choices made in the past. This institutional dynamic has fuelled the power of partisan majorities in the House but stopped them in their tracks in the Senate.
Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights
Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights write by United Nations. This book was released on 2012. Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Minority Rights Revolution
The Minority Rights Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Minority Rights Revolution write by John D. Skrentny. This book was released on 2002-12-19. The Minority Rights Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged groups of Americans began to make headway. In the first book to take a broad perspective on this wide-ranging and far-reaching phenomenon, Skrentny exposes the connections between the diverse actions and circumstances that contributed to this revolution.
Equal Recognition
Equal Recognition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equal Recognition write by Alan Patten. This book was released on 2016-11-08. Equal Recognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at odds about the merits of these competing claims. Multicultural liberals hold that particular minority rights are a requirement of justice conceived of in a broadly liberal fashion. Critics, in turn, have questioned the motivations, coherence, and normative validity of such defenses of multiculturalism. In Equal Recognition, Alan Patten reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights. Patten seeks to restate the case for liberal multiculturalism in a form that is responsive to the major concerns of critics. He describes a new, nonessentialist account of culture, and he rehabilitates and reconceptualizes the idea of liberal neutrality and uses this idea to develop a distinctive normative argument for minority rights. The book elaborates and applies its core theoretical framework by exploring several important contexts in which minority rights have been considered, including debates about language rights, secession, and immigrant integration. Demonstrating that traditional, nonmulticultural versions of liberalism are unsatisfactory, Equal Recognition will engage readers interested in connections among liberal democracy, nationalism, and current multicultural issues.
