Democratic governance in multicultural societies

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Democratic governance in multicultural societies

MOST Discussion Paper No. 30

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This paper aims at contributing to the discussion of multicultural policies by analyzing the effects of global transformations for social integration in the nation-state and by developing a framework of democratic governance, in which multicultural language policies can be situated and through which international human rights standards can be implemented.
It argues that multicultural language policies are most likely to succeed in the double task of respecting particular identity claims and maintaining social integration in a shared public sphere.

Part I provides an analysis of social transformations causing linguistic diversity and political conflicts over language issues. Part II considers the most important international conventions and declarations setting standards for the protection of linguistic rights. These are analyzed in their capacity to provide a normative basis for the formulation of multicultural language policies. In both parts, the major argument is illustrated by an analysis of language conflicts and language policy development in the Kyrgyz Republic, a society explicitly committed to democracy, yet affected by the problematic role of linguistic diversity in the process of post-Soviet state-formation and nation-building.



Author(s)	Matthias Koenig
Website (URL)	http://www.unesco.org/most/ln2pol2.htm

Publisher	UNESCO

Publication Year	1999

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