Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the PoliticalThe global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement politics in liberal western democracies, the negotiation of identity difference has become a challenge to democracies