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Explores why political disagreement persists in multilingual societies despite improved translation capabilities.

July 28, 2026Open Access

Rethinking Multilingual Democracy: Towards a Generative Relational Theory of Governance amid Relational Plurality and Heteromorphic Values

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This theoretical exploration examines governance in multilingual democracy, highlighting relational plurality and value coordination.

Explores why political disagreement persists in multilingual societies despite improved translation capabilities.
Conducts a thought experiment on perfect translation and its implications for political values.
Reviews existing literature on translation theory and ontological conflict to identify institutional gaps in multilingual contexts.
Identifies that distinct relational structures influence how values are articulated in multilingual communities.
Concludes that translation does not resolve foundational value disagreements, which are rooted in differing relational histories.

Wanhong HUANG (2026) studied this question.

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