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A Theory Of Citizenship Organizing Plurality In Contemporary Democracies
By Herman R. Van Gunsteren
Copyright 1998
176 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize their 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, under conditions that are far from ideal, is... Read more
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
Biography
Van Gunsteren, Herman R.
