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Book reviewed in this article:VERED AMIT‐TALAI and CAROLINE KNOWLES (eds.), Re‐Situating Identities. The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Culture.RODNEYS. HADDOW, Poverty Reform in CanadaJOHN C. KENNEDY, People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador.JOHN C. KENNEDY, Labrador Village.WARREN MAGNUSSON, The Search for Political Space: Globalization, Social Movements, and Urban Political Experience.ALICYA MUSZYNSKI, Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia.ROBERT W. PREUCEL and IAN HODDER (eds.), Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader.L. SALTER and A. HEARN, Outside the Lines: Issues in Interdisciplinary Research.PAUL M. SNIDERMAN, JOSEPH F. FLETCHER, PETER H. RUSSELL and PHILIP E. TETLOCK, The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy.EVELYN K. SOMMERS, Voices from Within: Women Who Have Broken the Law.PETER STERN, Prisoners of the Crystal Palace: Mapping and Understanding the Social and Cognitive Organization of Scientific Research Fields.FRANÇOIS TRUDEL, PAUL CHAREST et YVAN BRETON (red.), La construction de I'anthropologie québécoise: mélanges offerts à. Marc‐Adélard Tremblay

The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy. Paul M. Sniderman , Joseph F. Fletcher , Peter H. Russell , Philip E. Tetlock

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy. Paul M. Sniderman , Joseph F. Fletcher , Peter H. Russell , Philip E. Tetlock Cris ToffoloCris Toffolo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 60, Number 2May, 1998 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2647936 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1998 University of Texas PressPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist DemocracyPaul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell and Philip E. Tetlock New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, pp. xi, 291

The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist DemocracyPaul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell and Philip E. Tetlock New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, pp. xi, 291

The Clash of rights: liberty, equality, and legitimacy in pluralist democracy

Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of individuals.

Justice Done and Seen to Be Done? The Institutionalized Relationship between the Press and the Criminal Justice System in the Netherlands

This article addresses the problem of the criminal justice system in relation to press and publicity in the Netherlands, concentrating on the clash of rights that may occur when trials are public, journalists claim freedom of information and defendants claim a right to privacy, and international law also requires that criminal trials be fair and take place before an impartial and unprejudiced tribunal. The situation in the Netherlands contrasts strongly with that of Great Britain and the United States, in that the historical development of both the media and the criminal justice system in the Netherlands has led to an emphasis on the right to privacy for the defendant and a right not to be subjected to "trial by media" instead of emphasizing freedom of expression or impartiality of the tribunal. The article explores the implications of this development, paying special attention to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which guarantees all of the above rights but offers few clues as to how to reconcile them.