Alain-G. Gagnon holds the Canada Research Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies, is Director of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ,) and is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is also Director of the Research Group on Multinational Societies.

This book explores the debates centred on diversity through a normative and empirical analytical assessment of the political sociology of multinational democracies and the institutional possibilities associated with federalism.

Introduction: The Merits of Federalism and New Awareness of the Multination 1. Memory and National Identity in Catalonia and Québec 2. The Normative Foundations of Asymmetrical Federalism: the Canadian Situation from a Comparative Perspective 3. The Emerging Phenomenon of the Multination 4. Executive Federalism and the Exercise of Democracy in Canada 5. The Effects of Majority Nationalism in Canada 6. Resistance and Potential: the Duty to Consider the Multination