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What are the claims and challenges of cultural pluralism? What are some of the major theoretical positions regarding cultural pluralism and how does it influence and find expression through politics and policy?

This course addresses these questions by engaging with the by now large and diverse literature on multiculturalism, which focuses on how public authorities ought to respond to minority groups’ claims to recognition, inclusion, equality, autonomy, and self-government. Having analyzed this literature, the course turns to empirical and political aspects of pluralism. The main question with which the course grapples is how states and societies change as a result of (increased) diversity, which in turn opens up for a large number of more specific questions, including the relationship between diversity and social welfare, parliamentary politics, constitutionalism, national identity, and integration policies.

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Syllabus with literature list spring 2026

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