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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
The main challenge facing democracies in the post-Communist era is probably not so much the threat of totalitarianism as the consequences of pluralism, of the existence within these societies of a plurality of incompatible cultural allegiances. How are they to survive their fragmentation into communities many of whom no longer share the basic moral requirements of a democratic regime: recognition of the liberty of conscience, of equality of rights, and the like?
1 This is a shortened and partially revised version of a paper given under the title ‘French republicanism and thick multiculturalism’ at a conference on ‘Human Security in Multicultural Societies’ held in Kasauli, India in March 1995.