Problems and possibilities of ethnic minority traditional rights within liberal democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12008814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Basil R Singh (University of Sunderland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-234 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0362-3319(02)00164-7 |
| OpenAlex | W1966161279 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Problems and possibilities relating to claims to group rights within a liberal individualist democratic framework is explored here in two liberal democracies, viz., America and Canada. The tension inherent in individual rights and claims of ethnic minorities to traditional group rights are explored in selected Court cases. In our exploration we shall find that while liberal democracies are committed to individual rights and freedom, they had to, in few cases, interpret rights and freedom, so as to accommodate certain group rights
Democracy · Ethnic group · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Individualism · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Minority rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
The Idea Of An Overlapping Consensus
Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism
Perfectionism and Politics
Polity and Group Difference
Justice as Fairness
Liberalism and the Politicization of Ethnicity
Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism
Agonistic Liberalism
The Morality of Freedom
Minority Practices and Principles of Toleration
Reply to Modood
Two Models of Pluralism and Tolerance
Distributing Sovereignty
Ethnic Minority Customs, English Law and Human Rights
Cultural Rights Again
Beyond neutrality
Public Reason and Cultural Pluralism
Justice Toward Groups
Are there any Cultural Rights
Constructions of Cultural Identity
Pluralism and Liberalism
Liberal Democracy and Group Rights
Foundations of a Theory of Multicultural Justice
Dilemmas of a Multicultural Theory of Citizenship
A Multicultural Continuum
The Politics of Individual and Group Difference in Canadian Jurisprudence
Law and the Protection of Cultural Communities
Tribal Courts' Failure to Protect Native American Women
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |