<div dir="ltr">
<div class="gmail-articleMeta gmail-ja">
<div class="gmail-hlFld-Title">
<div class="gmail-publicationContentTitle">
<h1>
Group Rights, Participatory Goods, and Language Policy
</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail-articleMetaDrop gmail-publicationContentDropZone">
</div>
<div class="gmail-publicationContentAuthors"><div class="gmail-hlFld-ContribAuthor"><span class="gmail-contribDegrees"><a class="entryAuthor" href="http://utpjournals.press/author/Goemans%2C+Piet"> Piet Goemans</a><a href="http://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0021?journalCode=utlj#d7344e67" class="gmail-tooltipTrigger gmail-infoIcon"><span class="gmail-ui-helper-hidden-accessible">Related information</span></a><div id="gmail-d7344e67" class="gmail-ui-helper-hidden-accessible"> <p class="gmail-first gmail-last">*Political Science, University of Pavia, Italy</p><br></div></span></div><div class="gmail-NLM_bio"><span> <p class="gmail-first gmail-last">*Political Science, University of Pavia, Italy</p></span></div><div class="gmail-hlFld-AuthorNotes"></div></div>
<div class="gmail-articleMetaDrop gmail-publicationContentDropZone gmail-publicationContentDropZone1">
</div>
<div class="gmail-publicationContentDoi">
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3138/utlj.2017-0021">https://doi.org/10.3138/utlj.2017-0021</a>
</div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail-publication-tabs gmail-ja gmail-publication-tabs-dropdown">
<div class="gmail-tabs gmail-tabs-widget">
<ul class="gmail-tab-nav">
<li class="gmail-active">
<a href="http://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0021" class="gmail-show-abstract">
Abstract
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/utlj.2017-0021" class="gmail-show-pdf" target="_self">
PDF
</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="gmail-tab-content">
<div class="gmail-tab gmail-tab-pane gmail-active">
<article class="gmail-article gmail-hideMathJax">
<div class="gmail-hlFld-Abstract"><a name="abstract"></a><div class="gmail-sectionInfo gmail-abstractSectionHeading"><div class="gmail-sectionHeading">Abstract</div></div><div class="gmail-abstractSection gmail-abstractInFull"> <p>This
article asks whether groups or individuals should hold rights to
participatory goods. Participatory goods are a type of public goods that
can only be enjoyed jointly, in participation with others. Denise
Réaume, who coined the term, argues that individual interests in
participatory goods cannot be of sufficient weight to ground rights to
the core of participatory goods. James Morauta has interpreted Réaume’s
argument as a constraint on the types of right-holders that can hold
rights to participatory goods – a holding constraint. Morauta then
criticizes the interpretation he made of Réaume. This article clarifies
the disagreement between these two authors by analysing how
participatory goods are produced and, more specifically, by introducing a
distinction between threshold actions – that is, actions that are
necessary for producing a participatory good – and surplus actions –
that is, actions that are not, strictly speaking, necessary for the
production of a participatory good. I use this analysis to do four
things. First, I show that Réaume is right when it comes to threshold
actions but that Morauta is right in the case of surplus actions.
Second, I give a new argument for an adapted holding constraint – that
says that groups as well as individuals should hold rights to
participatory goods – based on an account of what it means to produce
participatory goods. Third, I show that this argument withstands
Morauta’s criticism. Finally, I spell out an account of group rights
that is in line with my argument. The result is an argument for, and an
account of, group rights that grants groups the legal standing to sue,
which I think should be granted to minority languages living
intermingled with majority languages.</p> </div></div><div class="gmail-abstractKeywords"><div class="gmail-hlFld-KeywordText"><span><strong>Keywords:</strong> <a href="http://utpjournals.press/keyword/Denise+R%C3%A9aume">Denise Réaume</a>, <a href="http://utpjournals.press/keyword/Group+Rights">group rights</a>, <a href="http://utpjournals.press/keyword/James+Morauta">James Morauta</a>, <a href="http://utpjournals.press/keyword/Language+Policy">language policy</a>, <a href="http://utpjournals.press/keyword/Participatory+Goods">participatory goods</a></span></div></div></article></div></div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
</div>