Nationalism and Democracy ─ Dichotomies, Complementarities, Oppositions

This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines nationalism’s relationship with democracy using three approaches:

• The challenge of democracy for sub-state nationalism: analyzing the circumstances under which sub-state nationalism is compatible with democracy, and assessing the democratic implications of various nationalist projects.

• The impact of state nationalism on democratic practices: examining the implications of state nationalism for democracy, both in countries where liberal democratic principles and practices are well-established and where they are not.

• Understanding how state nationalism affects democratization processes and what impact sub-state nationalism has in these contexts.

Featuring a range of case studies on Western, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, African and the Middle East, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, nationalism and democracy.

Andre Lecours

(Ed.) New Institutionalism. Theory and Analysis, University of Toronto Press in 2005

(eds.) Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity. Identity, Federalism and Democracy (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009) (with Genevieve Nootens).

Nationalism and Social Policy. The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) (with Daniel Beland).

(eds.) Les nationalismes majoritaires contemporains: identite, memoire, pouvoir (Montreal: Quebec Amerique, 2007) (with Alain-G. Gagnon and Genevieve Nootens).

Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007).

Luis Moreno

Moreno, Luis (2001), The Federalization of Spain. London / Portland, OR: Frank Cass/Routledge (ISBN: 0-7146-5138-9).

McEwen, Nicola y Moreno, Luis (eds.) (2005), The Territorial Politics of Welfare. London, New York: Routledge (ISBN: 0-415-36319-5).

He is a Board member of the Research Committee on ‘Politics and Ethnicity’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).