Citizenship and National Identity

A good political community is one whose citizens are actively engaged in deciding their common future together. Bound together by ties of national solidarity, they discover and implement principles of justice that all can share, and in doing so they respect the separate identities of minority groups within the community.

And finally he demonstrates that national self--determination need not be achieved at the expense of global justice. This is a powerful statement from a leading political theorist that not only extends our understanding of citizenship, nationality and deliberative democracy, but engages with current political debates about identity politics, minority nationalisms and European integration.

Introduction. 1. Deliberative Democracy and Social Choice. 2. In Defence of Nationality. 3. Citizenship and Pluralism. 4. Group Identities, National Identities and Democratic Politics. 5. Bounded Citizenship. 6. Communitarianism, Left, Right and Centre. 7. Secession and the Principle of Nationality. 8. Nationality in Divided Societies. 9. Is Deliberative Democracy Unfair to Disadvantaged Minorities?. 10. National Self--Determination and Global Justice. Notes. Index.