How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives considering questions of citizenship multiculturalism immigration and equality. The contributors many of whom have set the terms of this debate in international political science include Will Kymlicka Carlos Closa Michael Keating Enric Fossas Wayne Norman and Ricard Zapata Barrero.