Political Culture and the Problem of Double Standards: Mass and Elite Attitudes toward Language Rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Year:
1989
Volume and number:
, 22
Collection:
, 2
Journal:
, Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique
Pages :
, 259-284
Abstract
Les droits linguistiques représentent des revendications de droits non seulement pour le compte des personnes, mais aussi pour celui des communautés linguistiques. À ce titre, elles soulèvent pour les Canadiens(nes) de profondes questions d'identité et d'affinité. La présente étude, qui est le premier rapport du Projet de la Charte, sonde les attitudes des masses et des élites envers les droits linguistiques au Canada. En commençant par le problème de double standard, à savoir si les anglophones et les francophones veulent ou non affirmer certains droits pour leur propre communauté, et non pour l'autre, la présente étude trouve que les attitudes envers les droits linguistiques sont façonnées par une interaction entre les valeurs essentielles auxquelles les citoyens(nes) souscrivent et leur préoccupation quant à la position à la fois linguistique et partisane de la communauté à laquelle ils (elles) s'identifient.
Language rights represent claims of entitlement not only on behalf of individuals, but also on behalf of linguistic communities. As such, they raise deep questions of identity and affinity for Canadians. This study, the first report of the Charter Project, investigates mass and elite attitudes toward language rights in Canada. Beginning with the problem of double standards-whether anglophones and francophones want to affirm certain rights for their own group but not for the other-this study finds that attitudes toward language rights are shaped by an interplay between core values to which citizens subscribe and their concern for the status of the groups, both linguistic and partisan, with which they identify.
Language rights represent claims of entitlement not only on behalf of individuals, but also on behalf of linguistic communities. As such, they raise deep questions of identity and affinity for Canadians. This study, the first report of the Charter Project, investigates mass and elite attitudes toward language rights in Canada. Beginning with the problem of double standards-whether anglophones and francophones want to affirm certain rights for their own group but not for the other-this study finds that attitudes toward language rights are shaped by an interplay between core values to which citizens subscribe and their concern for the status of the groups, both linguistic and partisan, with which they identify.
Theme :
CanadaRight
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