Lynn Dobson

Supranational citizenship (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks? Bringing together political theory with debates about European integration, international relations and the changing nature of citizenship, this book, available at last in paperback, offers a coherent and innovative theorisation of a citizenship independent of any specific form of political organisation. It relates that conception of citizenship to topical issues of the European Union: democracy and legitimate authority; non-national political community; and the nature of the supranational constitution.

The author argues that citizenship should no longer be seen as a status of privileged membership, but instead as an institutional role enabling individuals' capacities to shape the context of their lives and promote the freedom and well-being of others. In doing so, she draws on and develops ideas found in the work of the philosopher Alan Gewirth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847794840
• Artikelnr.: 42371501

Autorenporträt

Lynn Dobson lectures in Political Theory and EU/International Politics at the University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I 1. Citizenship
part I: membership
privilege
and place 2. Citizenship
part II: status
identity
and role 3. Citizenship of the European Union Part II 4. Gewirth: action and agency 5. Political agency 6. Nexus
framework: constituting authority 7. Agency
authorisation and representation in the EU Part III 8. Gewirth: community
rights
values 9. Mutual recognition in the supranational polity 10. The good supranational constitution Conclusion