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    Mill's claim that multinational states are incompatible w... — Carmelics
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    Mill's claim that multinational states are incompatible with democracy is mistaken

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    • 1.Deliberative democratic theory (Habermas, Cohen) grounds legitimacy in inclusive rational discourse, not shared national identity.
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    • 2.Multinational states can institutionalize multiple public spheres that feed into shared deliberative procedures, as seen in consociational democracies.
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    • 3.Mill conflates cultural homogeneity with the civic trust required for deliberation, but Kymlicka shows minority rights protections can generate that trust instead.
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    • 1.Mill's argument assumes a single demos is necessary for democratic accountability, but federal and consociational arrangements demonstrate demoicracy—democracy among multiple peoples—is coherent.
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    • 2.Nicolaïdis's demoicracy framework shows that overlapping demoi with differentiated representation can satisfy democratic legitimacy without cultural unity.
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    • 1.There are actual cases of multinational democratic states, such as Canada and Belgium
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    • 2.Switzerland may also count as a multinational democratic state
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    • 3.The United States can be considered a multinational democratic state because most Indian tribes have a legal status approaching sovereignty
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    Mill apparently based his judgment that multination states are incompatible with democracy on historical experience. However, some would argue that there are cases of multinational democratic states: Canada, Belgium, and perhaps Switzerland (depending upon whether one regards the last as multinational or merely multi-ethnic). One might also add the United States, since most Indian tribes have a legal status that approaches sovereignty.
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