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Multiculturalism and the Welfare State - Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies (Paperback)
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Multiculturalism and the Welfare State - Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies (Paperback)
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In many Western democracies, ethnic and racial minorities have
demanded, and sometimes achieved, greater recognition and
accommodation of their identities. This is reflected in the
adoption of multiculturalism policies for immigrant groups, the
acceptance of territorial autonomy and language rights for national
minorities, and the recognition of land claims and self-government
rights for indigenous peoples. These claims for recognition have
been controversial, in part because of fears that they make it more
difficult to sustain a robust welfare state by eroding the
interpersonal trust, social solidarity and political coalitions
that sustain redistribution. Are these fears of a conflict between
a "politics of recognition" and a "politics of redistribution"
valid? This volume is the first systematic attempt to empirically
test this question, using both cross-national statistical analyses
of the relationships among diversity policies, public attitudes and
the welfare state, and case studies of the recognition/
redistribution linkage in the political coalitions in particular
countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada,
Netherlands, Germany, and in Latin America. These studies suggest
that that there is no general or inherent tendency for recognition
to undermine redistribution, and that the relationship between
these two forms of politics can be supportive as well as
competitive, depending on the context. These findings shed
important light, not only on the nature and effects of
multiculturalism, but also on wider debates about the social and
political foundations of the welfare state, and indeed about our
most basic concepts of citizenship and national identity. As a
ground-breaking attempt to connect the literatures on
multiculturalism and the welfare state, this volume will be of
great interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners who
work on issues of ethnocultural diversity and social policy.
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