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This chapter outlines the book’s scholarly contributions. It also briefly discusses the possibility of extending the hypothesis of multiculturalism’s survival to other policy realms that may also be at risk under right-wing governments. Finally, the conclusion makes two main speculations about how multiculturalism should be designed to endure in the age of the political right: (1) when the opportunity avails itself, minority rights should not only be written into formal rules but also designed in such a way that they multiply the number of policy stakeholders and (2) proponents of diversity politics may have an incentive to define the recognition and accommodation of cultural diversity as means and not as an end in and of itself.
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Minderdenbeleid, a compound term that includes the word “minderheden,” the Dutch word for minorities, as well as the word “beleid,” a term that is often but inaccurately translated in most works on Dutch multiculturalism as “policy.” The word “beleid” is in fact unique to the Dutch legal vernacular; it refers to an interpretation of existing laws that may, only under certain special circumstances, acquire “quasi-legislative” status (Blankenburg 1998, 66). A “beleid” is most often used in reference to a set of standard practices that a government has declared that it will follow and/or to a public declaration of the duties that public servants have in adhering to the government’s interpretation of the country’s legal framework (ibid., 67).
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Tremblay, A. (2019). Conclusion: Scholarly Contributions and Potential Application to Theory-Building and Multicultural Policy Design. In: Diversity in Decline? . Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02299-0_7
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