The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: Towards an Individuated Approach to Cultural Diversity (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy)

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism provides a timely analysis of some of the weaknesses, as well as the successes, of the liberal multicultural project. It also takes a step forward by developing a pluralist, individual-centred approach to allocating minority rights in practice. "Cover"--"Half-Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "1 Introduction" -- "Liberalism, liberal multiculturalism, and state policies" -- "Minority rights and membership-based allocation" -- "Outline of the book" -- "Part I Justifying Minority Rights: The Grand Theories and Their Constraints" -- "2 Equality and Culture" -- "Will Kymlickaâ#x80;#x99;s equality-based approach to cultural diversity" -- "The prerequisite for choice, importance, and involuntariness arguments" -- "The scope of the three arguments" -- "Minority rights and the limitations of Kymlickaâ#x80;#x99;s framework" -- "Minority rights as promoting certain conceptions and contents of culture" -- "Two senses of protecting membership" -- "Conclusion" -- "3 Autonomy versus Toleration" -- "The limits of autonomy-liberalism" -- "Self-governance and imposition" -- "The diversity-liberal critique of autonomy" -- "Freedom of conscience versus autonomy" -- "Diversity, equality, and minority rights" -- "The role of the state" -- "Conclusion" -- "4 Liberal Egalitarianism and Equality of Opportunity" -- "The Rawlsian framework of fair equality of opportunity" -- "Fair equality of opportunity in multiculturalism" -- "Opportunities, opportunity sets, and costs of taking advantage of opportunities" -- "Costs versus justification" -- "The proper object of opportunity" -- "Joint opportunities and cultural exemptions" -- "Conclusion" -- "Part II Liberal Multiculturalism and Allocation of Minority Rights" -- "5 Group Membership, Self-identification, and Need" -- "Raz and Margalit on groups and group memberships" -- "Membership-based accounts of cultural accommodation" -- "Recognition-based accounts of group membership" -- "Discrepancies in recognition" -- "Should groups decide their own members?" -- "Cultural policies and reasons for recognition." Why should the liberal state be concerned about people's cultural differences? How should it respond to these differences? Can culturally differentiated treatment, including the rights and exemptions of minority members, be justified within the liberal framework? And if it can, to whom should this treatment be extended? The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism discusses cultural accomodation from the perspective of liberal political theory on the one hand, and conrete multicultural policies on the other. It explores some of the weaknesses, but also the successes, of the liberal multicultural project, and develops a new, individuated, yet culturally sensitive approach to cultural diversity. While establishing differentiated rights as legitimate policy options of the liberal state, Vitikainen turns our focus to a further question: How do we reach the actual beneficiaries of such rights? In order to track their targets, differentiated rights must be fairly allocated. This requires extending the scope of the liberal multicultural project, and applying a pluralist, individual-centred approach to allocating differentiated rights in liberal democratic societies. -- from back cover. Why should the liberal state be concerned about people's cultural differences? How should it respond to these differences? Can culturally differentiated treatment, including the rights and exemptions of minority members, be justified within the liberal framework? And if it can, to whom should this treatment be extended? The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism discusses cultural accommodation from the perspective of liberal political theory on the one hand, and concrete multicultural policies on the other. It explores some of the weaknesses, but also the successes, of the liberal multicultural project, and develops a new, individuated, yet culturally sensitive approach to cultural diversity. While establishing differentiated rights as legitimate policy options of the liberal state, Vitikainen turns our focus to a further question: How do we reach the actual beneficiaries of such rights? In order to track their targets, differentiated rights must be fairly allocated. This requires extending the scope of the liberal multicultural project, and applying a pluralist, individual-centred approach to allocating differentiated rights in liberal democratic societies Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-18 Equality and Culture....Pages 19-44 Autonomy versus Toleration....Pages 45-72 Liberal Egalitarianism and Equality of Opportunity....Pages 73-97 Front Matter....Pages 99-101 Group Membership, Self-identification, and Need....Pages 103-126 Identity and Exit....Pages 127-151 Cultural Motivations and Cultural Defence....Pages 152-178 Conclusion: Liberal Multiculturalism and Its Limits....Pages 179-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-226