The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 United States of America The American Culture War -- America at War with Itself -- Institutional Factors -- Civil Society -- Philanthropy and Foundations: A Case Study -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 France The Past in the Present: Redefining Laïcité in Multicultural France -- Laïcité in the Course of History: From Confrontation to Compromise -- Persistence and Topicality of the School Question, or "The Present Encumbered by the Past -- French Laïcité as Challenged by the Minorities -- Mediating in a Deadlock: The "Veil Affair -- From Appeased Laïcité to Laïcité as Mediator: The Case of the 1988 Conflict in New Caledonia -- Conclusion: Prescribe the Norm, Organize the Debate, Create the Ties—From One Kind of Mediation to Another -- Notes -- References -- 3 Germany Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements -- Classic Normative Conflicts: Overcome or Suppressed? -- Basic Consensus: Basic Law and Social Market Economy -- Market Economy and or anti the Welfare State? -- New Social Movements as Catalysts for Normative Conflicts? -- What Can the German Example Teach Us About Handling Normative Conflicts? -- Notes -- 4 Hungary Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary -- Populists and Westernizers in Eastern Europe -- Populists and Urbans in Hungary (1930s–1990s) -- An Old Cleavage in a New Democracy (1989–1996) -- Resolving or Civilizing the Conflict? -- Notes -- 5 Chile Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy -- From the Cleavage of Marxism to the Cleavage of the Military Government -- The Social Effect of "Revolution from the Top": Economic Reform and Political-Institutional Reform