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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>The Department of Politics and Public
Administration invites you to its weekly Seminar Series, <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color:red;font-weight:bold'>Andrew Shorten (UL)</span></font></b><b><font
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color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Constitutional Secession Rights and Democratic
Incentives</span></font></b><b><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This paper discusses the advisability of
incorporating secession rights in the constitutions of multinational political
associations. After outlining the idea of a multinational political
association, and introducing Cass Sunstein’s influential argument against
constitutional secession rights, I distinguish three specific objections to
such rights. First, that they are bad for deliberative democracy.
Second, that they sanction rights-violating forms of exploitation. Third,
that they permit unfairness. I argue that secession rights are
compatible with democratic constitutionalism, and that secession rights may
have a marginal role in correcting deliberative inequality. However, I
also raise two notes of scepticism. First, that secession rights may
undermine fairness, at least in some kinds of multinational political
association. Second, that the strategy of ‘domesticating
secession’ through the constitution – by incorporating devices to
stifle secessionist politics – may be incompatible with democratic
equality. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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