Citizenship and Civil Society

A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11101055
AutoresT Janoski (0000-0003-3032-5001, University of Kentucky, autor correspondente), Richard Madsen (0000-0002-7025-4642, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas456
Data de publicação1999-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2655333
OpenAlexW2080150974
Open LibraryOL663246M
ISBN9781139174787
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas283

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. One must understand those relationships in specific ways to really know what can or can not 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

Balance (ability) · Citizenship · Civil society · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Impunity · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social citizenship · Social rights · Sociology · State (computer science) · Human Rights and Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Bürgerliche Gesellschaft · Burgerrechten · Burgerschap · Citoyenneté · Civil rights · Droit civils et politiques · Droits de l'homme · Maatschappelijk middenveld · Morale politique · Obligation politique · Political obligation · Responsabilité · Responsibility · Société civile · Staatsangehörigkeit · Verplichtingen · Zivilgesellschaft