Citizenship And Identity: Towards a New RepublicPsychology Press, 2003 - 186 pages Citizenship and Identity offers an analysis of contemporary politics and of the scepticism and apathy which characterise the political life of modern democracies. Starting from exploration of liberal-democracy and a critique of the fragmentation of contemporary politics, this book develops a republican perspective as an alternative framework for political institutions and civic participation. |
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... sense of citizenship and political affiliation. The argument of the book develops an idea of republicanism as a critique of liberal-democracy. More positively, I attempt to indicate what implications republicanism would have if applied ...
... sense of citizenship and political affiliation. The argument of the book develops an idea of republicanism as a critique of liberal-democracy. More positively, I attempt to indicate what implications republicanism would have if applied ...
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... sense of citizenship and the public good can be developed for the members of a democratic society. Such a more forceful sense of citizenship is necessary to prevent the deeper fragmentation of contemporary democracy. By fragmentation is ...
... sense of citizenship and the public good can be developed for the members of a democratic society. Such a more forceful sense of citizenship is necessary to prevent the deeper fragmentation of contemporary democracy. By fragmentation is ...
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... sense of criticism and scepticism towards established institutions and procedures. Perhaps the most fundamental factor in contemporary democratic societies is what one sociologist (Richard Muench) calls 'homogenisation by individ ...
... sense of criticism and scepticism towards established institutions and procedures. Perhaps the most fundamental factor in contemporary democratic societies is what one sociologist (Richard Muench) calls 'homogenisation by individ ...
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... sense that the people belong together by virtue of the characteristics that they share'.9 These shared characteristics are not those of biological descent, or common ethnicity. A public culture is described as 'a set of understandings ...
... sense that the people belong together by virtue of the characteristics that they share'.9 These shared characteristics are not those of biological descent, or common ethnicity. A public culture is described as 'a set of understandings ...
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... sense of citizenship in contemporary liberal- democracy. This involves an awareness of overarching political community, 'overarching' in that it links people of different identities, ethnicities, professions, fostering in them an active ...
... sense of citizenship in contemporary liberal- democracy. This involves an awareness of overarching political community, 'overarching' in that it links people of different identities, ethnicities, professions, fostering in them an active ...
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