And does anyone really expect democracy to take firm root in Bosnia, however long the UN stages elections and stands between hostile groups? Yet closer inspection reveals surprisingly scanty evidence that di-versity countervails open politics. Here we present the findings of elementary cross-national analysis.

Students should learn about the ways in which people in their community, nation, and region are increasingly interdependent with other people around the world and are connected to the economic, political, cultural, environmental, and technological changes taking place across the …

2018年9月11日 · Democracy demands a robust contest of ideas to thrive, and diversity is the best way of protecting the democratic foundation of the American experiment, a new paper argues. Diversity inspires...

Diversity is a source of resilience, adaptability and creativity. But it can also be exploited for political gain by polarising opinion and deepening divides. Socio-economic, gender, ethnic, generational and other inequalities fuel divisive rhetoric and trigger electoral choices which make democracies increasingly fragile.

This article argues that different types of social diversity have differential effects on regime type. Specifically, ethno-linguistic diversity increases prospects for democracy while religious diversity decreases prospects for democracy. The article presents a variety of reasons why diversity might have divergent causal effects on regime type.

2009年12月4日 · What is important to recognize is that, while democracy encourages diversity of all kinds, there is a clear limit to the diversity that is consistent with it; and that comes at the point where social or political beliefs and practices contradict its core principles of popular control and political equality, and the universalist assumptions on ...

2017年5月29日 · The articles in this volume will depart from the intrinsic connection between democracy and diversity – and the unavoidable challenges that pluralism poses to decision-making procedures – investigating, from different perspectives, how the normative requirement of fully respecting agents’ reflexive agency impacts the revision of ...

We will study exemplary historical statements of the ideal of democracy drawing on traditional and contemporary works in political philosophy. We will also draw on contemporary work in sociology, anthropology, cultural and legal studies, and political science to examine the nature of social and cultural diversity including religion, value ...

In politics, the term diversity is most often used to refer to cultural, linguistic, religious and other differences generically defined as “ethnic”. This paper too is about ethnic diversity and its relationship to democracy and politics. Different or diverse people have always mingled and this mingling produced the best

The central focus of the Diversity and Democracy Cluster is the question of how liberal democratic principles and practices adapt to an increasingly diverse population.