Exit Rights and Entrance Paths

Accommodating Cultural Diversity in a Liberal Democracy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6319670
AutoresSigal Ben-Porath (0000-0003-3014-6388, University of Pennsylvania, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume8
Fascículo4
Páginas1021-1033
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592710003166
OpenAlexW2062628224
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas40

The debate over the accommodation of culture in liberal democracies tends to emphasize exit rights. Autonomy is typically taken as a pre-condition for exit, and public schools are often charged with promoting or facilitating it. I argue that diversity liberals have a more justifiable view than that of autonomy liberals on cultural accommodation, but diversity liberalism too should reframe its view of exit rights. Narrow exit rights that protect basic human rights should be maintained and augmented with entrance paths into general society. I further suggest that for exit rights along with entrance paths to provide the morally required conditions for accommodating culture while respecting freedom, policies in this realm should be designed to address adults rather than children. I consider the effect of this dual change of perspective on the accommodation of culture in democratic institutions, including schools

Accommodation · Autonomy · Cognitive reframing · Democracy · Diversity (politics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Minority rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology