Citizenship and civil society : framework of rights and obligations in liberal, traditional, and social democratic regimes
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 cannot. Rights and obligations are systematically related in important ways backed by the state.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1998
316 páginas : ilustraciones, tablas ; 23 cm
9780521571982, 9780521635813, 0521571987, 0521635810
981387403
Introduction to citizenship
The framing of citizenship rights: expansion, clarification, and meaning
Reconstructing obligations and patriotism: limitations, sanctions, and exchange in a system of rights
Citizen-selves in restricted and generalized exchange
The balance of rights and obligations through nesting, civil society, and social closure
Incremental change in citizenship over decades: power resources, state structures, ideology, and external forces
Momentous change in citizenship over centuries: from wasps to locomotives in the development and sequencing of rights
Conclusion and implications