dc.contributor.author | LACEY, Joseph | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-27T10:10:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-27T10:10:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | British Journal of Political Science, 2014, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 61-82 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-2112 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0007-1234 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/30598 | |
dc.description | Online publication 12 March 2013. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Contrary to the view that linguistic homogeneity is required to create a viable demos, this article argues that linguistic diversity can be a permanent feature of any democratic community, so long as there is a unified and robust voting space that provides a common intentional object, around which distinct public spheres can aesthetically organize their political discourse. An attempt to explain how such a voting space operates in Switzerland, the finest existing exemplar of a multilingual demos, is given. Following the Swiss example, the author proposes, would go a long way to constituting the European Union as a democratically legitimate trans-national demos, despite its formidable linguistic diversity. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | British Journal of Political Science | en |
dc.title | Must Europe be Swiss ? : on the idea of a voting space and the possibility of a multilingual demos | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0007123412000798 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 44 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 61 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 82 | en |
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dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en |