Multicultural Citizenship
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
Kymlicka, Will Research Director, Canadian Centre for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Ottawa
Print publication date: 1996 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829091-9




Chapter 10 Conclusion
doi:10.1093/0198290918.003.0010

Will Kymlicka
Abstract: Liberal thinking on minority rights has too often been guilty of ethno-centric assumptions, or of over-generalization from particular cases, or of conflating political expedience with moral principle. If liberalism is to have any chance of taking root in newly emerging democracies, it must explicitly address, and find a theoretical accommodation for, the needs and aspirations of ethnic and national minorities.

Keywords: minority rights,

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Full Book Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Politics of Multiculturalism
Chapter 3 Individual Rights and Collective Rights
Chapter 4 Rethinking the Liberal Tradition
Chapter 5 Freedom and Culture
Chapter 6 Justice and Minority Rights
Chapter 7 Ensuring a Voice for Minorities
Chapter 8 Toleration and Its Limits
Chapter 9 The Ties That Bind
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
 
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