Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

Edited by Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting

Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

Edited by Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting

Description

Does the increasing politicization of ethnic and racial diversity of Western societies threaten to undermine the welfare state? This volume is the first systematic attempt to explore this linkage between "the politics of recognition" and "the politics of redistribution".

Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

Edited by Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting

Introduction: Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Setting the context, Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka
Part one: Cross-national studies
2. Do Multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis, Keith Banting, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka, and Stuart Soroka
3. 'If you are my brother, I may give you a dime!' Public opinion on multiculturalism, trust, and the welfare state, Markus Crepaz
Part two: Case studies
4. Multiculturalism and welfare policies in the US states: A state-level comparative analysis, Rodney E. Hero and Robert R. Preuhs
5. Is multiculturalism eroding support for welfare provision? The British case, Geoffrey Evans
6. The parallel decline of multiculturalism and the welfare state in the Netherlands, Han Entzinger
7. Multiculturalism in Germany: Rhetoric, scattered experiments, and future chances, Peter A. Kraus and Karen Schönwälder
8. Do campaigns for historical redress erode the Canadian welfare state?, Matt James
9. Does the recognition of national minorities undermine the welfare state?, Nicola McEwen
10. Multiculturalism versus neoliberalism in Latin America, Donna Lee Van Cott
11. Neoliberalism and the re-emergence of ethnopolitics in Bolivia, Willem Assies
Part three: Theoretical reflections
12. Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Theoretical reflections, David Miller
13. diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state: Should welfare state theory be revised?, John Myles and Sébastien St.-Arnaud

Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

Edited by Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting

Author Information

Will Kymlicka is the author of five books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998); and Politics in the Vernacular (2001). He is also the editor of Justice in Political Philosophy (Elgar, 1992), The Rights of Minority Cultures (OUP, 1995), and co-editor of Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU Press, 1997), Citizenship in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2000), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported ? (OUP, 2001), and Language Rights and Political Theory (OUP, 2003). He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University.
Keith Banting is Queen's Research Professor in Public Policy in the School of Policy Studies and the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. His research interests focus on the politics of public policy, especially social policy He is the author of Poverty, Politics and Policy: Britain in the 1960s (Macmillan), and The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism (McGill-Queen's University Press). He is also the editor or co-editor of another fourteen books dealing with politics, political institutions and social policy. Among these edited books are The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations (Macmillan); The State and Economic Interests (University of Toronto Press); Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World (McGill-Queen's University Press), and Health Policy and Federalism: A Comparative Perspective on Multi-Level Governance (McGill-Queen's University Press).

Contributors:

Willem Assies, Van Vollenhoven Institute of the Faculty of Law of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Keith Banting , Queen's University
Markus Crepaz, University of Georgia
Han Entzinger, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Geoffrey Evans, University of Oxford
Rodney E. Hero, University of Notre Dame
Matt James, University of Victoria
Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia
Peter Kraus, Humboldt University in Berlin
Will Kymlicka, Queen's University
Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh
David Miller, University of Oxford
Robert R. Preuhs, University of Colorado at Boulder
Karen Schönwälder, Social Science Research Center, Berlin
Stuart Soroka, McGill University
Sébastien St-Arnaud, University of Toronto
Donna Lee Van Cott, Georgetown University

Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

Edited by Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting

Reviews and Awards

"The recognition of cultural diversity is not just about the law or politics, it is also about the welfare state and though citizens of the state share the law and welfare state, it is the redistribution of resources through the welfare state that asks burning questions of our mutuality... This issue is explored in detail in Multiculturalism and the Welfare State."--The Muslim World Book Review