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4 - Broadening the Base

The Necessity and Dilemmas of Liberal Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

Eric W. Cheng
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Japan
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Chapter 4 considers a perspective that encourages citizens to develop a preliminary culture of trust on top of something other than a shared commitment to liberal democracy. According to “liberal nationalists” like David Miller and Yael Tamir, citizens should develop a sense of “bounded solidarity” on the basis of their shared nationality. Although nationality can assume exclusivist, illiberal, and anti-democratic forms, liberal nationalists maintain that it can evolve in inclusive and liberal democratic directions. This chapter shows that liberal nationalism is an incomplete perspective. Although liberal nationalism can help overcome the problem of initiation, it cannot adequately ensure that nationality will shed itself of exclusivist racial or ethnic components. Moreover, liberal nationalism does not provide citizens with the resources and capacities necessary to deepen any preliminary sense of trust which might have emerged; liberal nationalism only helps citizens better tolerate their differences and disagreements. So, this chapter paves the way for the rest of the book’s discussion of role-based constitutional fellowship. The chapter also considers constitutional patriotism.

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Hanging Together
Role-Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement
, pp. 64 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Broadening the Base
  • Eric W. Cheng, Waseda University, Japan
  • Book: Hanging Together
  • Online publication: 07 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179294.004
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  • Broadening the Base
  • Eric W. Cheng, Waseda University, Japan
  • Book: Hanging Together
  • Online publication: 07 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179294.004
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  • Broadening the Base
  • Eric W. Cheng, Waseda University, Japan
  • Book: Hanging Together
  • Online publication: 07 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179294.004
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