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Whose democracy? : nationalism, religion, and the doctrine of collective rights in post-1989 Eastern Europe
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Whose democracy? : nationalism, religion, and the doctrine of collective rights in post-1989 Eastern Europe

Author: Sabrina P Ramet
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©1997.
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The years since the collapse of communism in 1989 have witnessed a dangerous renewal of religious intolerance and nationalist demands across Eastern Europe. In this provocative application of moral philosophy to contemporary political processes, Sabrina P. Ramet draws upon the literature of Natural Law to demonstrate that liberal democracy depends on a delicate balance between individual and societal rights. Appeals  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-
Whose democracy?.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1997
(DLC) 97007819
(OCoLC)36470243
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Sabrina P Ramet
ISBN: 0585080844 9780585080840
OCLC Number: 44953841
Description: 1 online resource (xii, 233 p.)
Contents: Introduction: The holy trinity: rights, legitimacy, political succession --
Back to the future in Eastern Europe --
Eastern Europe's painful transition --
The new ethnarchy and theories of rights --
Theocratic impulses in Poland --
The struggle for collective rights in Slovakia --
The Albanians of Kosovo --
Conclusion: Collective rights in the dialectic of history.
Responsibility: Sabrina P. Ramet.

Abstract:

The years since the collapse of communism in 1989 have witnessed a dangerous renewal of religious intolerance and nationalist demands across Eastern Europe. In this provocative application of moral philosophy to contemporary political processes, Sabrina P. Ramet draws upon the literature of Natural Law to demonstrate that liberal democracy depends on a delicate balance between individual and societal rights. Appeals to the collective rights of national and religious groups rest on spurious claims, as Ramet convincingly shows in her analysis of the situations of Hungarians in Slovakia, Albanians in Kosovo, theoretically inclined Catholic bishops in Poland, Serbs in Croatia, and contending forces in post-Dayton Bosnia. What Ramet calls the doctrine of collective rights actually subverts the liberal democratic project, legitimating instead intolerance and group exclusivity.

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