A Theory of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality in Contemporary Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780367314309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Herman R. Van Gunsteren

Opis

Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize our differences, that allows people to live together as citizens in a republic? Whereas liberal, republican, and communitarian theories of citizenship analyzed the conditions of citizenship, the central message of this book is that the practical exercise of citizenship

Spis treści

Preface -- Why Citizenship? -- Citizenship on the Political Agenda -- Theories of Citizenship, Old and New -- What Citizens Do -- Plurality in The Unknown Society -- Against Consensus -- Deep Groups Under a Multicultural Surface -- Citizens in Public Office -- How Citizens Are Formed -- Education -- Admission and Exclusion -- Work and Third Age Citizens -- Moral Unity or a Steady Diet of Conflicts? -- Political Institutions and the Idea of Citizenship -- The Outlook for Citizenship

O autorze

Herman R. Van Gunsteren is professor of political theory at Leiden University and the author of Time for Retirement (1991) and The Quest for Control (1976).