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Master in Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality Edition 2013-‐2014
“Democracy and Political Liberalism: theoretical and institutional features”
Oscar Pérez de la Fuente Associate Professor (accredited) Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy 1. Presentation This subject deals with the analysis of the main theories and institutions of democracy and political liberalism, focusing specially on the current debates on political inclusion, socioeconomic and cultural and national justice in diverse societies. The democracy of Ancient Greece and different conceptions of political liberalism and modern and contemporary democracy will be addressed from key concepts of political legitimacy: equality, liberty, pluralism, justice, federalism, representation, and participation. 2. Prerequisites A general overview of the main institutions of Ancient and liberal democracy, as well the basic elements of the current debate on justice, liberal democracy, federalism and cultural/national pluralism. 3. Competences to be achieved At the end of the term, students must be familiar with the main concepts, historical experiences and normative and institutional references and challenges of present day liberal democracies. Students are also expected to have ability to write a research paper on the subject, focusing on current debates on theories of democracy, political liberalism, federalism, cultural/national pluralism or theories of justice. Oral presentations, ability of reasoning and critical discussion are expected in the development of this subject, as well as the ability to identify and develop new conceptual and analytical ideas in the field. 4. Assessment
The following criteria will be taken into account for the final assessment:
a) Presentations and comments of the discussants or minimum of 6 summaries of the compulsory readings for the sessions (20%)
b) Participation during the sessions (credit will be given for the quality of comments) (10%)
c) Students should hand in a Paper (max. 5000 words) (70%) 5. Methodology a) Teaching Language: English is the official language in this Master programme. Papers may be also written in Catalan, Spanish, Italian and French. b) Basic structure of each session: Lecture (Oscar Pérez de la Fuente) (55 min) Initial discussion (15 min) Break (15 min) Presentation of the two-‐three compulsory reading texts (2-‐3 students) (20-‐30 min) Introductory comments by the discussant (1 student) (15 min) Open discussion and conclusions led by the discussant (40 min) Presentation of the readings for the next session (Oscar Pérez de la Fuente) (10 min) d) Contact:
Prof. Dr. Oscar Pérez de la Fuente e-‐mail: [email protected] You can contact the Professor by e-‐mail or at the end of a session to arrange a tutorial.
Session 1.-‐ Presentation (26-‐9-‐13) Presentation of the subject: aims, methodology and academic organisation Democracy, pluralism and political liberalism. Theories of justice conceived as three paradigms: Inclusion (democratic/political justice), Redistribution (socio-‐economic justice) and Recognition (cultural/national justice). Introductory remarks on some political concepts (situated self, value pluralism, individual autonomy, virtue…) Comments on the bibliography Readings: None. Other recommended readings: Dworkin-‐Williams-‐Nagel-‐Taylor, “Pluralism”, in R. Dworkin-‐M.Lilla-‐R.Silvers, The legacy of Isaiah Berlin, New York Review Books, 2001. Fraser, Nancy, Honneth, Axel, Redistribution and recognition: a political philosophical exchange, Verso, London, New York, 2003. (Redistribución o reconocmiento? Un debate politico-‐filosófico, Morata, 2006. Taylor, Charles, Sources of the self: the making of modern identity, Cambrdige University Press, Oakleigh, 1989. (Fuentes del yo: la construcción de la identidad moderna, Paidos, Barcelona, 1996) Taylor, Charles, Ethics of authenticity, Harvard University Press, 1991. (Etica de la autenticidad, Paidos , 1994) MacIntyre, Alasdair, After virtue: a study in moral theory, University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. (Tras la virtud, Critica, 1987) Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, Pluralismo cultural y derechos de las minorias, Dykinson, Madrid, 2005, chap. 1. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, La polémica liberal comunitarista, Dykinson, Madrid, 2005.
Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, "Escalas de justicia y emancipación: inclusión, redistribución y reconocimiento", Astrolabio, Revista internacional de filosofía, num. 11, 2011, pp. 378-‐391. Session 2.-‐ Democracy of Ancient Greece (3-‐10-‐13) Readings: Sartori, Giovanni, Theory of democracy revisited, Chatham House Publishers, 1987, chaps 2 and 10. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, 35-‐46 (Pericles), Book V, 85-‐114 (Melian) (editions recommended: in English, The LOEB Classical Library; in Catalan, the Fundació Bernat Metge’s; in Spanish, the Gredos’ and Alianza’s) Other recommended reading: Requejo, Ferran, Las democracias. Democracia antigua, democracia liberal y Estado del Bienestar, Ariel, Barcelona 2008 , chap. 2-‐4. Dunn, John, Democracy, the unfinished journey, Oxford University Press 1995, chap 1-‐2 (Democracia: el viaje inacabo, Tusquets, Barcelona, 1995) Finley, M. I., The Ancient Greeks, 1963 (Los griegos de la antigüedad, Labor, Barcelona 1992 Osborne, Robin (ed), Classical Greece 500-‐323 BC, Oxford University Press 2000 (La Grecia clásica , Crítica, Barcelona 2002) Forrest, W G, The Emergence of Greek Democracy The character of Greek politics, 800-‐400 BC, 1978, chaps 6-‐9 (Los orígenes de la democracia griega, Akal, Barcelona 1988) Morkot, Robert, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece, Penguin Books 1996 Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, “Educación para la Democracia. Una visión desde los clásicos”, Universitas, núm. 9, enero 2009, pp. 83-‐103. Session 3.-‐ Democracy of Ancient Greece (II) (10-‐10-‐13) Readings: Isocrates, Areopagíticus, II, Harvard University Press 1982 (Discursos, vol II, Gredos, Madrid 1980)
Hansen, M.H, The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes , Blackwell,1991, chap. 4. Other recommended readings: Plato, Protagoras; Republic (422e-‐427d, 437b ff, 514a, 518b-‐519d, (Gredos, Madrid 1981) Aristotle, Politics, 1279a, 1280b-‐1281a, 1282b-‐1283a, 1286b, 1293b, 1294a, 1323b,1328b-‐1329a (Política, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales) Hamilton, E. The Greek Way, Norton & Company 1930, chap 11 (El camino de los griegos, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid 2002) Sinclair, R.K., Democracy and Participation in Athens, Cambridge University Press, 1988, chaps 1,5 (Democracia y participación en Atenas, Alianza, Madrid 1999) Session 4.-‐ Paradigm of Inclusion: Democracies, theories and models (17-‐10-‐13) Readings: Berlin Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty” in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press 1969 ("Dos conceptos de libertad", Cuatro ensayos sobre la libertad, Alianza, Madrid 1988) Madison James, The Federalist, n.10, Basil Blackwell 1987 (2nd ed) (El Federalista, Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics, 2009) Offe Claus; Preuss Ulrich, “Democratic institutions and moral resources” in D. Held (ed), Political Theory Today, Polity Press, Cambridge 1991 ("Instituciones democráticas y recursos morales", Isegoría, núm. 2, Madrid 1990) Others recommended readings: Mill, John Stuart, Representative Government, chap 12 (several ed) Mill, John Stuart, On "La democratie en Amérique" (Sobre la libertad y Comentarios a Tocqueville, Espasa Calpe, Madrid 1991) Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press, Berkeley-‐Los Angeles-‐London 1972, chaps 4,5,7,8,9
Manin, Bernard, The Principles of Representative Government, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-‐New York-‐Melbourne 1997, chaps 2-‐5 Requejo, Ferran “Les senyes d’identitat del liberalisme”, in A Castiñeira (ed) El liberalisme i els seus critics, Proa, Barcelona 1996: 13-‐57 Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Harper&Brothers, New York 1942, chaps 20-‐22 (Capitalismo, Socialismo y Democracia, Ed Folio, Barcelona 1984) Beetham, David, "Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Democratization" in Held 1993 (also in Political Studies 1992, vol XL, Special Issue) Macpherson, C.B., The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy, Oxford University Press 1976, chap 5 (La Democracia Liberal y su época, Alianza Madrid, 1981) Dahl Robert A., Democracy and its critics, Yale University Press, 1989, chap. 20. (La Democracia y sus críticos, Paidós, Barcelona 1992) Pettit Phillip, Republicanism. A History of Freedom and Government, Oxford University Press, 1997 chap 1: 35-‐75 (Republicanismo. Una teoría sobre la libertad y el gobierno, Barcelona, Paidós, 1999) Session 5.-‐ Deliberative democracy and its critics (24-‐10-‐13) Readings: Cohen, Joshua, “Deliberation and democratic legitimacy”, in Bohman, James F., Rehg, Williams (eds.), Deliberative democracy: Essays on reason and politics, PIT Press, 1997, pp. 342-‐360. Benjamin Barber, Strong democracy, University of California Press, London, 2003, chap. 8 (Democracia fuerte, Almuzara, Córdoba 2004). Young, Iris Marion, Democracy and Inclusion, Oxford University Press, 2002, chap 2. Other recommended readings: Habermas, Jürgen, “Three normative models of democracy”, Constellations, vol. 1 issue 1, 1994, 1-‐10. Elster, Jon, “The market and the forum: Three varieties of Political Theory” in Bohman, James F., Rehg, Williams (eds.), Deliberative democracy: Essays on reason and politics, PIT Press, pp. 3-‐33.
Dryzek, John S. (2002) Deliberative democracy and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sunstein, Cass, “Beyond the republican revival”, Yale Law Journal, núm. 97, 1987-‐1988, pp. 1539-‐1590. Nino, Carlos Santiago, The constitution of deliberative democracy, Yale University Press, 1996 (Constitución de la democracia deliberativa, Gedisa, Barcelona, 1997) Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, “Qué democracia(s)” , Co-‐herencia, vol. 9, núm. 16, 2012, pp. 53-‐79. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, "La paradoja de la democracia deliberativa y el discurso de las virtudes cívicas" , Sistema, num. 229, 2013, pp.91-‐110. Session 6.-‐ Paradigm of Redistribution: Theories of socio-‐economic justice (31-‐10-‐13) Readings: Rawls John, "Fundamental ideas”, in Justice as Fairness. A Restatement (Erin Nelly edit), Harvard University Press, Cambridge-‐London 2001 (La Justicia como equidad. Una reformulación, Paidós, Barcelona-‐Buenos Aires-‐México 2002) Gray John, “Liberal Toleration” in Gray, John, Two Faces of Liberalism, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000(“Tolerancia liberal”, Las dos caras del liberalismo, Paidós, 2001) Nussbaum, Martha, Frontiers of justice: Disability, Nationality, Species membership, Harvard University Press, 2006 (Fronteras de la justicia: consideraciones sobre la exclusión, Paidós Barcelona, 2006) Other recommended readings: Rawls, John, "Justice as Fairness” in A Theory of Justice, Oxford University Press 1971, chap 1 (Teoría de la Justicia, F.C.E. 1978) Larmore, Charles,"Political Liberalism", Political Theory, vol3, 1990, pp. 339-‐360. Neal, Patrick, "Vulgar Liberalism", Political Theory, vol 21, n.4, 1993, pp. 623-‐642. Nussbaum, Martha, Women and human development: the capabilities approach, Cambridge University, 2000 (Las mujeres y el desarrollo humano: el enfoque de las capacidades, Herder, Barcelona, 2002)
Sandel, Justice: what’s the right thing todo?, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009 cap. 6 In defense of equality. Rawls (Justicia ¿hacemos lo que debemos?, Debate, Madrid, 2011). Requejo, Ferran; Gonzalo, Eduard, Desigualtats en democràcia. Les teories de la justícia socio-‐econòmica en el segle XXI, Chap 4, Eumo, Vic 2009. Session 7.-‐ Theories of socio economic justice (II) (7-‐11-‐13) Readings: Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, state and utopia, Basic Books, New York, 1990 (Anarquía, Estado Utopía, Fondo de Cultura Economica, México, 1990) Cohen, G.A. If you’re egalitarian, how come you’re so rich?, Harvard University Press,2011 (Si eres igualitarista, cómo es que eres tan rico?, Paidós, Barcelona, 2001) Sen, Amartya, The idea of justice, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 (La idea de justicia, Taurus, Madrid, 2010) Others readings: Elster, Jon, Maxing sense of Marx, Cambridge University Press, 1985. Sen, Amartya, Inequality re-‐examined, Claredon, Oxford, New York (Nuevo examen de la desigualdad, Alianza, Madrid, 1995) Sen, Amartya, On ethics and economics, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1990 (Sobre ética y economia, Alianza, Madrid, 1989) Sandel, Justice: what’s the right thing to do?, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009 Chp. on Nozick (Justicia ¿hacemos lo que debemos?, Debate, Madrid, 2011). Gargarella, Roberto, Las Teorías de la justicia después de Rawls: un breve manual de filosofía poíítica, Paidós, 1999. Session 8.-‐ Paradigm of Recognition: Theories of cultural/national justice (14-‐11-‐13) Readings: Taylor, Charles, Multiculturalism and "the Politics of Recognition", Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1992 (El multiculturalismo y la “política del reconocimiento”, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1993)
Habermas, Jürgen, “Struggles for recognition in the Democratic constitutional State”, in Habermas, The inclusion of the other. Studies in political theory, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2002. (La inclusión del otro: estudios de teoría política, Paidós, 2004) Requejo, Ferran, “The crooked timber of liberal democracies is still too straight”, in N. Walker-‐B. Shaw-‐S. Tierney (eds), Europe’s Constitutional Mosaic, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2011: 231-‐249 Other recommended readings: Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship. A liberal theory of minority rights, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, chaps 3 and 6 (Ciudadanía Multicultural, Paidós, Barcelona 1996) Tully, James, “Introduction”, in A.Gagnon-‐J.Tully (eds), Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Requejo, Ferran, "Cultural pluralism, nationalism and federalism: A revision of democratic citizenship in plurinational states", European Journal of Political Research, num. 35, 1999, pp. 255-‐286 Taylor, Charles, “Shared and Divergent Values” in Watts R – Brown D.M (eds), Options for a New Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1991: 53-‐76 (“Valores compartidos y divergentes”, in Fossas Enric -‐ Requejo Ferran (eds), Asimetría Federal y Estado Plurinacional, El debate sobre la acomodación de la diversidad en Canadá, Bélgica y España, Trotta, Madrid 1999, chap. 2) Kymlicka Will, -‐ Norman Wayne (eds), “Citizenship in Culturally Diverse Societies: Issues, Contexts, Concepts”, in Kymlicka Will-‐Norman Wayne (eds) Citizenship in Diverse Societies, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000 Norman, Wayne, Negotiating Nationalism, Oxford University Press, 2006 Requejo Ferran, “Political Liberalism and Multinational Democracies” in Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism, Routledge, London-‐New York 2005, chap 1. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, Pluralismo cultural y derechos de las minorías, Dykisnon, Madrid, 2005, chap. 2. Session 9.-‐ Intercultural evaluation (21-‐11-‐13) Readings: Parekh, Bhikhu, Rethinking multiculturalism, Harvard University Press, 2000, chap. 9.
Barry, Brian, Culture and equality, Polity Press, 2001, chap. 2.
Other recommended readings: Okin, Susan Moller, Is multiculturalism bad for women?, Princeton Universoty Press, 1999. Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus, Routledge, 1997 (Iustitia Interrupta, Siglo del Hombre, Universidad de los Andes, Santafé de Bogota, 1997) Phillips Anne, "Must Feminists Give Up on Liberal Democracy?", in Held, David, Prospects for Democracy , Polity, 1993, chap. 3. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, "Feminismo y multiculturalismo. Una versión de Ariadna en el laberinto de las identidades" en AAVV, Perpectivas sobre feminismo y Derecho, Dykisnon, Madrid, 2012, pp. 123-‐151. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, “Mujeres musulmanas, velo islámico y valores de la esfera pública” en Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar (ed.) Mujeres: Luchando por la igualdad, Reivindicando la diferencia, Dykinson, 2010, pp. 255-‐284. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, Delitos culturalmente motivados. Diversidad cultural, Derecho e inmigración" , European Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 5, núm. 1,, 2012, pp. 65-‐95. Session 10.-‐ Global Justice and democracy in the beginning of 21th Century (28-‐11-‐13) Readings: Rawls, John, The law of peoples: with the “idea of public reason revisited”, Harvard University Press, 1999, chaps.15-‐16. Pogge, Thomas, World poverty and human rights, Polity, Cambridge 2003, chaps. 7-‐8. Others recommended readings: Parekh Bhikhu, "The Cultural Particularity of Liberal Democracy", in Held, David, Prospects for Democracy , Polity, 1993, chap 7 Nussbaum, Martha (ed.), For love of country: debating the limits of patriotism, Beacon Press, 1996 (Los límites del patriotismo, Paidos, Barcelona, 1999). Requejo, F, “Three theories of liberalism for three theories of federalism. A Hegelian turn” in M. Seymour (ed), Multinational Federalism: Problems and Prospects, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012 (forthcoming). Resnick, Philip, “Twenty-‐first Century Democracy, or Cleisthenes Revisited”, in Resnick P, Twenty-‐first Century Democracy, Montréal, McGill-‐Queen’s University Press, 1997, chap1 Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, “Inmigración, fronteras y ética de la alteridad”, Comunicación a la Mesa “Justicia social, cosmopolitismo y derecho a migrar” en las III Jornadas sobre Políticas Migratorias, CSIC, 27-‐29 octubre 2010. Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, ”Algunas estrategias para la virtud cosmopolita”, Derechos y Libertades, ISSN 1133-‐0937, núm. 15, 2006, pp. 65-‐100. More information: http://www.webphilosophia.com http://www.oscarperezdelafuente.com
