1. Citizenship in Diverse Societies: an introduction ; PART I: CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY ; 2. Discrimination and Religious Schooling ; 3. Extending Diversity: Religion in Public and Private Education ; PART II: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND GROUP REPRESENTATION ; 4. What Does a Representative Do? Descriptive Representation in Communicative Settings of Distrust, Uncrystallized Interests, and Historically Denigrated Status ; 5. The Uneasy Alliance of Deliberative Democracy and Group Representation ; PART III: IMMIGRATION, IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURALISM ; 6. Cultural Identity and Civic Responsibility ; 7. Anti-Essentialism, Multiculturalism and the Recognition of Religious Groups ; PART IV: GENDER AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY ; 8. Should Church and State be Joined at the Altar: Women's Rights and the Multicultural Dilemma ; 9. Female Autonomy and Cultural Imperative: Two Hearts Beating Together ; PART V: LANGUAGE RIGHTS ; 10. Official Language Rights: Intrinsic Value and the Protection of Difference ; 11. Citizenship and Official Bilingualism in Canada ; PART VI: THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ; 12. Three Modes of Incorporating Indigenous Law ; 13. Landed Citizenship: Narratives of Aboriginal Political Participation ; PART VII: FEDERALISM AND NATIONALISM ; 14. Sustainable Federalism, Democratisation and Distributive Justice ; 15. Why Stay Together: A Pluralist Approach to Secession and Federation

Contributions for leading scholars in the field Explores theoretical issues in the course of examining concrete experience in public policy Contains a lengthy, comprehensive introduction to the central debates of recent political theorizing about citizenship in pluralistic democratic societies.

Contributions for leading scholars in the field Explores theoretical issues in the course of examining concrete experience in public policy Contains a lengthy, comprehensive introduction to the central debates of recent political theorizing about citizenship in pluralistic democratic societies.