Ramón Máiz – författare

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and comparative accounts of key issues such as:* politics and policies of accommodation* multiculturalism* recognition of group rights* federalist reforms and debates in Canada and European states* the political construction of the European Union.

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors distinguish among types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and unity of the state.

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors distinguish among types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and unity of the state.

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors distinguish among types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and unity of the state.

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors distinguish among types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and unity of the state.

Desde el Brexit hasta el independentismo en Cataluña, pasando por los nacionalismos de extrema derecha, la teología política recorre de nuevo Europa con el discurso mistificador de la "soberanía". Contra este nuevo fetichismo de la soberanía Ramón Máiz argumenta en este libro que el federalismo plurinacional constituye un ideal político y un conjunto de conceptos, principios y diseños normativos viables muy apropiados para la acomodación democrática, multicultural y solidaria de Estados plurinacionales como España. Pero, la posibilidad misma de pensar el federalismo plurinacional exige la crítica y reformulación de muchos argumentos y conceptos que se dan por evidentes tanto en lo que atañe a la idea de "nación" como a la de "federalismo".Nacionalismo y federalismo no solo nos propone un novedoso recorrido por las ideas de Sieyès y Fichte, de Meinecke y Renan, pasando por Madison, Hamilton o Bauer, también Flórez Estrada o Pi i Margall, entre otros; esta obra va más allá de la historia del pensamiento, articula dos campos de investigación de la ciencia y teoría políticas: los estudios sobre el nacionalismo y el federalismo. El autor explora en profundidad los aspectos teóricos, institucionales, discursivos, culturales y emocionales de ambos procesos políticos que sustentan el federalismo plurinacional.

In reaction to the «fear of nation», which is widely represented in most contemporary political theory of liberalism and republicanism, this book outlines the necessity of including a national dimension in any democratic theory capable of facing the challenges of our time. The aim of the volume is to offer the reader a new non-nationalist concept of nation that is compatible with the normative requirements of democracy. The author considers a wide range of material in order to overcome assumptions, concepts and supposed evidence that have been uncritically accepted and repeated since the nineteenth century. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of the intimate connection between state and nation in the work of two of the deepest thinkers about the history of political thought, who respectively tried to imagine a republic without a nation (Abbé Sieyès) and a nation without a republic (Johann Gottlieb Fichte). The volume also exposes the undeniable empirical and theoretical shortcomings of the widespread notion that opposes civic and ethnic nationalism, as demonstrated by the historical nationalization of the Republic in France. At the same time, a constructivist analysis of nation as an open political process and a detailed examination of the discursive plurality of contemporary nationalism are developed. Finally, the author proposes a political theory that includes a concept of nation that is neither essentialist nor communitarian but federal and pluralist, and then integrates it into a wider normative proposal of plurinational federalism.