Name: Minorities: Community and Identity
ISBN: 978-3-642-69311-3

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C. Fried

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Part of the book series: Dahlem Workshop Report (DAHLEM, volume 27)

Part of the book sub series: Life Sciences Research Report (DAHLEM LIFE)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

Humane Incorporation: The Shape of Acceptable Options For Relations between Majorities and Minorities
- H. Shue, V. Eichener, P. M. Kitromilides, R. Marx, H. Rau, M. G. Smith et al.
Pages 282-298
Policies for Police-Minority Relations
- M. P. Banton
Pages 299-313
Writing a Constitution to Protect Minorities: The Canadian Experience
- P. C. Weiler
Pages 315-327
The Right of Ethnic Minorities to Political Representation
- A. M. Thernstrom
Pages 329-339
Political Community in Plural Societies
- P. M. Kitromilides
Pages 341-351
Affirmative Action and the Rights of the Majority
- C. Cohen
Pages 353-364
Politics of Affirmative Action: Race and Public Policy in America
- M. L. Kilson
Pages 365-373
The Case for a Group Libel Law in Great Britain
- J. Gewirtz
Pages 375-384
Forms of State and Rights
- A. M. A. Dummett, S. Avineri, M. P. Banton, C. Cohen, C. Fried, J. Gewirtz et al.
Pages 386-401
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they belong. Do communities have rights, indeed even an existence, which are not merely the hypostasis of the individual rights and existences collected in them? This conflict is then more striking as it was a conscious decision of the or ganizers of the workshop to focus attention on what might broadly be called liberal democracies: those societies which share a commitment to the princi ples of democratic participation, to the right of equal concern and respect of all members of the community, and to the basic liberties of association, ex pression, and thought. Ours was not the smug premise, however, that every so ciety which proclaims these principles is sufficiently or even truly devoted to them. But we did assume that we would have enough to do if we explored the implications of these widely shared ideals for the topic of linguistic, ethnic, and national minorities as these problems arise in societies where an appeal to them is not an empty gesture. The nations from which our participants were drawn are societies in which appeal to these principles has some point. They are all societies in which the efforts of politicians and the intelligence of schol ars need not be devoted exclusively to the tactical issues of winning some mod icum of respect for basic human rights from unwilling regimes. And yet all these societies have experienced significant difficulty in determining what the concrete meaning in actual situations of these general principles might be.

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Book Title: Minorities: Community and Identity
Book Subtitle: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Minorities: Community and Identity Berlin 1982, Nov. 28 – Dec. 3
Editors: C. Fried
Series Title: Dahlem Workshop Report
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69311-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Dr. S. Bernhard, Dahlem Konferenzen, Berlin 1983
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-69313-7Published: 06 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-69311-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 420
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Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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