Reconstructing Post-Nationalist Liberal Pluralism: From Interest to Identity

by Katherine Smits

This book examines liberal theory's attempts to accommodate pluralism, asking two fundamental 1. How and why have theorists based their defences and proposed revisions of liberal pluralism upon particular and contestable definitions of what is the relevant and significant plurality? 2. Can a revised liberal pluralism account for the political significance of sub-national identity group membership?

207 pages, Hardcover

First published December 10, 2005