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The cultural defense of nations : a liberal theory of majority rights /

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Addressing one of the greatest challenges facing liberalism today, this book asks if is it legally and morally defensible for a liberal state to restrict immigration in order to preserve the cultural rights of majority groups. Orgad proposes a liberal approach to this dilemma and explores its dimens...

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Main Author: Orgad, Liʼav (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford constitutional theory.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Einwanderung.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft.
Gruppenrecht.
Mehrheit.
Liberalismus.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: citizen makers
  • Part I: Before the Majority Becomes the Minority
  • New challenge
  • Demographic anxiety
  • Cultural defense
  • Part II: Legitimate and Illegitimate Defense
  • Illiberal liberalism
  • Majority rights
  • National constitutionalism
  • Conclusion: immigration policy and constitutional identity.