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A Tripartite Model of Federalism KU Leuven
Reimagining Supranational Belonging KU Leuven
This chapter focuses on James Tully’s understanding of the political philosophy of the European Union. Tully argues that European integration should be a negotiated process that depends on what the people themselves think; the process should not be arrived at in the mind of the normative political philosopher. And that process should not have as its goal the construction of a European demos but should instead involve the existing demoi. I agree ...
Taming Dignity for Multiculturalism KU Leuven
Linguistic Justice for Immigrants KU Leuven
Should speakers of immigrant languages have fewer language rights than members of long-settled nations? In this contribution, I argue that the interests of immigrant and native groups are normatively equally recognition-worthy. Any legitimate differential recognition must follow from the different interests immigrants have in language. I distinguish three categories of immigrants: strictly temporary immigrants, immigrants that have become or are ...
Personality and territoriality in theory and in Belgium KU Leuven
Language policy debates regularly refer to the principles of personality and territoriality. Yet the precise meaning of these principles remains unclear. In this contribution, I conceptualize these principles as poles of a continuum between official bilingualism (instantiating the personality principle) and official unilingualism (exemplifying the territoriality principle), with a mixed regime in between (which grants a certain territorial ...
Federalism as Fairness in Ethiopia KU Leuven
In this contribution I apply the normative political theory of multinational federalism to the case of Ethiopia. Can the political philosophy of multinational federalism ground Ethiopian federalism, and does Ethiopia satisfy its moral demands? To do so, I examine the Ethiopian federal system from the perspective of four desiderata of multinational federalism: (1) national-cultural self-government, (2) solidarity, (3) central government, and (4) ...