Citizenship and Civil Society - A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes (Hardcover, New)

Rights and obligations are confusing. When people really want or need something they call it a right. Can they simply attach this word to anything they want? Can people disregard obligations with impunity? This book argues that they can not and that the individual must understand those relationships in specific ways to really know what can or cannot be done with rights and obligations in public discourse and politics. They must create a web of interaction between citizens so that more long-term social investments may be made. Professor Janoski shows that individual rights protecting privacy, free speech and legal access are more highly developed in social democratic countries than in liberal countries. On the other hand, obligations in those same social democratic countries are higher. On the whole, rights and obligations are in balance; or, you get what rights you pay for in terms of fulfilling obligations to the state and society.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Thomas Janoski
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	332
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-57198-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship
LSN:	0-521-57198-7
Barcode:	9780521571982

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