Can federalism be a fair and workable way of arranging multinational societies within a revised liberal-democratic tradition?

In the past, traditional political approaches have addressed the question of political pluralism without seriously considering national pluralism-an attitude that has misrepresented and impoverished the discussions about, and the institutional practices of, multinational democratic federations. The book presents a theoretical model of federalism based on Isaiah Berlin’s concept of value pluralism and on the analysis of federal democracies. It then provides a critical analysis of the current Spanish territorial model and suggests four potential future scenarios for this model based on federal patterns.

Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism explores the possibilities for the democratic accommodation of national pluralism through federalism. It will interest students and researchers of federalism and nationalism, as well as those with a particular interest in the politics of contemporary Spain.

The Author

Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His main fields of research are theories of democracy, federalism, multinational democracies, political theory and political liberalism after the Second World War. In 1997 he was awarded the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize and in 2002 he received the Ramon Trias Fargas Prize.