Citizenship (Political Science)

Rousseau's Social Contract and a Theory for Global Citizenship

by Oscar de la Parra

Citizenship: arbitrary criteria for membership

by Oscar de la Parra

Unpublished essay.

Are all forms of attribution of citizenship on the basis of birth
equally arbitrary? We live in a world system... more Are all forms of attribution of citizenship on the basis of birth
equally arbitrary? We live in a world system where the metropolitan cluster of industrialised countries enjoys stability and development. To be born into one of these privileged states comes with an array of possibilities and support that someone born in a developing country can only dream of. what is it about the circumstances of one's birth, that entitle one to this or that membership? On what grounds does this constitute a criteria for limiting access to wealth?

Privatized Citizenship: Transformation of Health Care Policies in Turkey

by Filiz Kartal

Published in TODAİE’s Review of Public Administration, Volume 3 No 2 June 2009, p.  25-49.

Social rights are crucial for the exercise of civil and political rights, thus for the realization of political... more Social rights are crucial for the exercise of civil and political rights, thus for the realization of political membership and of social solidarity. However, the new structural conditions of economic liberalization are transforming the social citizenship and the institutional framework that it relies on. As one of the main pillars of social citizenship, health care services have started to be marketized in almost every country. In this article, through analyzing the changes in Turkish health care policies, it is argued that public policies and the responsibilities of the state have been transforming with respect to social citi-zenship conceptualization of different periods characterized with specific de-velopment models. Privatization and marketization attempts in the health care system have in one way or another been included in all reform proposals since 1980s and gradually implemented. Within this process, while the role and the responsibilities of the state are re-defined, the content of social citizenship started to be re-shaped. As a consequence, a new model of privatized and indi-vidualized citizenship is under construction.

Citizenship in Palestine: a fractured geography

by Marco Allegra

Unveiling the ‘International’: Process, Identity and Alterity

by Xavier Guillaume

Published in 'Millennium: Journal of International Studies', 2007

Process-based approaches avoid ontological consideration of social entities as substances, avoid epistemological... more Process-based approaches avoid ontological consideration of social entities as substances, avoid epistemological reification of social entities or phenomena into static units and, on the contrary, integrate the idea of change into their whole conceptualisation of the social world. Finally, process-based approaches also aim to endogenise social phenomena theoretically in order to have a better understanding of their complexity. In sum, the key ideas of process-based approaches basically lie in the prioritisation of process over substance, relation over separateness, and activity over passivity. Starting from this position, the aim of this article is to offer a more concrete approach to a specific dimension of the `international' by focusing on the identity— alterity nexus. It will be shown how the spatial understanding of the `international' still characteristic of most contemporary IR theories is at odds with issues about the identity—alterity nexus that is partly constitutive of the `international', which rather than being thought of as a spatial dimension should be thought of as a process in itself. The French `veil affair' will be presented as an example to highlight the limits of our current spatial perspective about the `international'.

CONDENAÇÃO CRIMINAL E DIREITO A VOTO

by Wladimir Rodrigues Dias

http://cdij.pgr.mpf.gov.br/boletins-eletronicos/alerta-bibliografico/alerta88/imagens/45.pdf

http://www.jurua.com.br/shop_item.asp?id=20742

(...) Em um Estado, a escolha institucional sobre procedimentos de decisão política e pessoas aptas à participação... more (...) Em um Estado, a escolha institucional sobre procedimentos de decisão política e pessoas aptas à participação neles define um regime político. No caso dos Estados que se pretendem democráticos, essa opção determina a própria substância da democracia. O Estado Democrático de Direito estabelecido no Brasil em 1988 , opta por acrescer a uma limitada concepção de democracia, escorada em um processo eleitoral competitivo , o cumprimento de requisitos poliárquicos fundamentais . Pode-se afirmar que não bastam para sua concretização procedimentos formais de escolha de representantes, mas a prevalência da regra de participação de todos os cidadãos no processo político, da maneira mais ampla possível.
Com base nesse pressuposto, proporemos uma leitura do texto constitucional brasileiro capaz não só de afastar a pretensão de se negar direito de voto ao cidadão condenado criminalmente , como de estabelecer interpretação segundo a qual o sentenciado tem o dever de voto, como qualquer brasileiro .
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Negotiating the Politics of Citizenship Education

by E. Wayne Ross

Ross, E. W. (2004). Negotiating the politics of citizenship education. PS: Political Science and Politics. 37(2), 249 - 251.   

Trust, confidence, credibility: citizen responses on Twitter to opinion polls during the 2010 UK general election

by Ben O'Loughlin

2011 In : Information, Communication, and Society.

Neoliberal communitarian citizenship: Current trends towards ‘earned citizenship’ in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands

by Semin Suvarierol

Co-authored with Friso van Houdt & Willem Schinkel, published in 'International Sociology', 2011

As Western European nation-states adapt to the challenges posed to the nation-state by globalization and immigration,... more As Western European nation-states adapt to the challenges posed to the nation-state by globalization and immigration, adjusting citizenship criteria for immigrants has been one of the responses to these developments. This article compares the current changes in citizenship policies of three Western European states: the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. The main concern of the article is to shed light on the emerging development of a form of neoliberal communitarian citizenship that involves an increased emphasis on the need to earn one’s citizenship. While many have signalled a shift towards neoliberal citizenship, this study assesses to what extent such a shift is characterized by a contractual view that sees citizenship no longer primarily as a prima facie right but as a prized possession that is to be earned and can be lost if not properly cultivated. At the same time, the study analyses the content of citizenship criteria to see how the nation-state in these three countries is sacralized by an emphasis on the national community. These two trends of earned citizenship are conceptualized in the study as neoliberal communitarianism.

Subjects after 7 PM: Construction of Political Subjectivities in Television News [Subjekty po devätnástej: konštrukcia politických subjektivít v televíznom spravodajstve]

by Michal Bočák

Bočák, Michal. 2009. "Subjects after 7 PM: Construction of Political Subjectivities in Television News." Pp. 151–168 in Mass Media Communication and Reality I. (Mass Media and the Social Construction of Reality. Mass Media and the Cultural Identity.), ed. by Slavomír Magál, Miloš Mistrík, Martin Solík. Trnava: FMK UCM. [Paper published in Slovak.]

Modes of a discursive construction of a subject in television news are explicated, in this study. Introduction... more Modes of a discursive construction of a subject in television news are explicated, in this study. Introduction presents the subject, which is defined in correspondence with post-structuralist conceptions of subjectivity as a point of intersection of discourses, framed by a requirement of cultural intelligibility. Since the substance of the subject’s constitution is its recognition by an ideology, the subject is understood as a political per se. Furthermore, based on an author’s research on television news formats, author analyses the role of the verbal and visual means in the construction of subjectivities in news. In a mediatized society, in which the politics (in compliance with trends of commodification and consumerism) is being transformed into a spectacle, television companies urge its viewers to participation in the production of news, but in doing so they restrict the viewers’ possibilities to tragedies and curiosities from the private sphere, thus strengthening the impression that the real politics is “out there”, outside the reach of citizens. In consequence the interactive television cannot be considered to be a more democratic institution.

Keywords: television news – subject – construction – discursive means – political participation – political exclusion – citizenship

The Once and Future European Nation-State

by Attracta Ingram

John Rawls as Philosopher of Equality

by Attracta Ingram