Abstract
Multicultural societies are marked by the coexistence of ethnic, sexual, religious, racial, and cultural minorities and mainstream groups. This coexistence can either be tense or collaborative. How to bridge the gap between the political demands of majority and minority groups? What are the obstacles to meaningful participation? What are the main challenges faced by such societies? And finally, how do we encourage large-scale debates around issues of minorities? In order to provide answers to these questions, this review examines Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights by R. E. Lowe-Walker (2018), Deliberative Democracy Now: LGBT Equality and the Emergence of Large-Scale Deliberative Systems by Edwina Barvosa (2018), and Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and Self-determination in Multicultural Societies by Jorge M. Valadez (2018).
Highlights
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, philosophers from the Global North examined the normative implications of demographic and cultural diversity in countries such as the United States and Canada
Recent scholarship on deliberative democracy and multiculturalism reveals the shortcomings of the early versions of the deliberative theory, which primarily relied on Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action
Some puzzling questions remain open for debate: How do political institutions bridge the gap between the political demands of majority and minority groups? What are the obstacles to meaningful participation? What are the main challenges encountered by multicultural societies? And how do we encourage large-scale debates around minority issues?
Summary
Deliberative Democracy in Multicultural Societies: The Challenges of Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Equality. Multicultural societies are marked by the coexistence of ethnic, sexual, religious, racial, and cultural minorities and mainstream groups. This coexistence can either be tense or collaborative. How do they bridge the gap between the political demands of majority and minority groups? What are the main challenges faced by such societies? How do we encourage large-scale debates around issues of minorities? E. Lowe-Walker (2018), Deliberative Democracy : LGBT Equality and the Emergence of Large-Scale Deliberative Systems by Edwina Barvosa (2018), and Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and Self-determination in Multicultural Societies by Jorge M.
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