When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?: How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality

by Corey Brettschneider

Book Overview

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, political theorist Corey Brettschneider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171297
• ISBN13: 9780691171296
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"