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Ferrer Beltrán, J., Iglesias, M. (Eds.) (2003). Law, Politics, and Morality: European Perspectives I. Globalisation, Democracy, and Citizenship - Prospects for the European Union. Duncker & Humblot. https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-50944-7
Ferrer Beltrán, Jordi and Iglesias, Marisa. Law, Politics, and Morality: European Perspectives I: Globalisation, Democracy, and Citizenship - Prospects for the European Union. Duncker & Humblot, 2003. Book. https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-50944-7
Ferrer Beltrán, J, Iglesias, M (eds.) (2003): Law, Politics, and Morality: European Perspectives I: Globalisation, Democracy, and Citizenship - Prospects for the European Union, Duncker & Humblot, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-50944-7

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Law, Politics, and Morality: European Perspectives I

Globalisation, Democracy, and Citizenship - Prospects for the European Union

Editors: Ferrer Beltrán, Jordi | Iglesias, Marisa

Schriften zur Rechtstheorie, Vol. 215/I

(2003)

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Section Title Page Action Price
Contents 5
Introduction 7
I. 9
II. 10
III. 11
I. Globalisation and Multiculturalism 15
Neus Torbisco: Building the European Polity: Towards a Multicultural Model of Integration? 17
1. Managing Diversity: A Challenge for European Integration 17
2. Multiculturalismi Minority Nationalism and Liberal Culturalism 24
3. Liberalism and Group Rights 32
4. Towards a Postnational Model of Integration in Europe: Some Dilemmas and Contradictions 40
5. Conclusion 48
References 50
Velio Pettai: Prospects for Multiethnic Democracy in Europe: Debating Minority Integration in Estonia 53
Introduction 53
1. Defining Nationhood 55
2. The Estonian State Integration Program 60
2.1. Ethnopolitical Transformation 61
2.2. The Turn Toward Integration 64
2.3. The First Policy Theses 66
2.4. Estonian Multiculturalism, Version One 69
2.5. Adopting the Final State Program 71
2.6. Estonian Multiculturalism, Version Two 74
2.7. Minority and Non-Citizen Reaction 75
Conclusion 77
References 79
Maria Laura Tasso: Multimoralism and Multiculturalism Some Reflections on a Proposal of Martin D. Farrell 83
1. The so-called Case of the Chador as an Example of Cultural Relativism? 83
2. Minors and Mill's Concept of Relevant Harm 90
3. The Crisis of the Traditional Concept of Harm - Concluding Remarks 93
References 97
II. Deliberation and Democracy 99
Samantha Besson: Disagreement and Democracy: From Vote to Deliberation and Back Again? The Move toward Deliberative "Voting Ethics" 101
Introduction 101
1. Deliberation and Disagreement 106
1.1. Actual Reasonable Agreement qua Regulative Ideal of Deliberation 106
1.2. Deliberative Disagreement 107
1.3. Potential Reasonable Agreement qua Internal Logic of Deliberation 111
2. The Need for Closure and the Inescapability of Voting 112
2.1. The Need for Closure 113
2.2. Various Proposals of Modes of Closure 114
2.2.1. General 114
2.2.2. Non-institutional Modes of Collective Choice 115
2.2.3. Institutional Modes of Collective Choice: From Deliberation Through Accommodation to Vote 116
3. Voting after Deliberating: A Deliberative Justification of Voting 119
4. Deliberative 'Voting Ethics': Voting Ethics from within 122
4.1. General 122
4.2. The Deliberative Ethics of Voting: Minimal Decisiveness 124
4.3. The Deliberative Ethics of Majority Rule: Maximal Decisiveness 125
Conclusion 130
References 131
José Luis Martí Mármol: The Democratic European State: Republicanism and Deliberative Democracy 137
Introduction 137
1. The European Union and Alternative Models of Governance for Political Integration 142
1.1. The Internationalist Model 143
1.2. The Supranationalist Model 145
1.3. The Infranationalist Model 146
2. Political Integration and Models of Democracy 147
2.1. Weiler' s Analysis 147
2.2. The Competitive Elites Model and the Pluralist Model - Craig's Critique 148
2.3. Reopening: Models of Democracy 149
2.4. Returning to Weiler: Towards the Reconstruction of a European Ethos 157
3. Which Democratic Tradition Should We Choose as a Normative Guide for European Political Construction? 158
3.1. A Deliberative, Associative, and Republican Model of Democracy 160
3.2. The Obstacle of the Size of the EU and the Democratic Deficit 164
3.3. The Remaining Three Obstacles : Which Democratic Model Should We Adopt 165
References 168
Guillaume Tusseau: Democracy and Information: The Perspective of Jeremy Bentham's Political Panoptism 175
Introduction 175
1. From Prison Panoptism to Political Panoptism: The Similarities of the Projects 177
1.1. A Double Dynamics of Information: The Metaphorical Universalization of Panoptism 177
1.1.1. From Individuals to the Legislator: From the Science of Passions to the Science of Legislation 177
1.1.2. From the Governors to the Citizens: The Transparency of Power 179
1.2. Similarities of Constitutional and Prison Devices: The Real Universalization of Panoptism 181
1.2.1. The Basic Principles 181
1.2.2. The Details of the Constructions 182
2. From Prison to Society: The Ambivalence of Bentham's Doctrine 184
2.1. A Controversy Between Scholars 184
2.1.1. Panoptism, a Harmful Obsession 185
2.1.2. Panoptism, a Limited and Beneficial Project 186
2.2. Bentham's Enterprise 188
2.2.1. A Coherent and All-embracing Enterprise 188
2.2.2. A Practicable Enterprise 189
Conclusion 193
References 193
Internet Sources 196
III. Citizenship and the European Union 199
Nick W. Barber: Citizenship, Nationalism and the European Union 201
1. European Citizenship 202
2. Nationalist Sentiment 209
3. The Incompatibility of European Citizenship and Nationalist Sentiment 220
4. Conclusion 224
References 224
Maribel Narváez Mora: European Citizens: Rights and Identities 227
1. Introduction - Union Citizenship: A Step in an Ongoing Process 227
2. Two Sides - of the Same Coin, but Still Two Sides 231
3. Union Citizenship as a Legal Status: Objective Aspects 234
4. Union Citizenship as Identity or Form of Belonging: Subjective Aspects 238
5. Union Citizenship: An Unnecessary and Insufficient Provision to Achieve the Ends of the Union 240
6. A Final Remark 244
References 245
Paolo Comanducci and José Juan Moreso: Epilogue 249
About the Authors 251