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Living Together as Equals - The Demands of Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Living Together as Equals - The Demands of Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Traditional understandings of citizenship are facing a number of
challenges. Ideas of cosmopolitan and environmental citizenship
have emerged in the light of concerns about global inequality and
climate change, whilst new models of multicultural citizenship have
been developed in response to the dilemmas posed by immigration and
the presence of national minorities. At the same time, more
particular debates take place about the demands citizenship places
upon us in our everyday lives. Do we have a duty as citizens to
take steps to reduce the risk of needing to rely upon state
benefits, including health care? Does good citizenship require that
we send our children to the local school even when it performs
poorly? Does a parent fail in his duty as a citizen - not just as a
father, say - when he is less involved in the raising of his
children than their mother? Should citizens refrain from appealing
to religious reasons in public debate? Do immigrants have a duty to
integrate? Do we have duties of citizenship to minimise the size of
our ecological footprints? This book develops a normative theory of
citizenship that brings together issues such as these under a
common framework rather than treating them in isolation in the way
that often happens. It distinguishes two different ways of thinking
about citizenship both of which shed some light on the demands that
is makes upon us: according to the first approach, the demands of
citizenship are grounded exclusively in considerations of justice,
whereas according to the second, they are grounded in the good that
is realised by a political community the members of which treat
each other as equals not only in the political process but in civil
society and beyond.
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