The Future Governance of Citizenship

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ID23765385
AuthorsDora Kostakopoulou (0000-0002-5375-4880, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2001
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueFuture Governance of Citizenship (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511619861
OpenAlexW2118286202
ISBN9780511619861
LanguageEN
Citations received36

In much of the citizenship literature it is often considered, if not simply assumed, that citizenship is integral to the character of a self-determining community and that this process, by definition, involves the exclusion of resident 'foreigners'. Dora Kostakopoulou calls this assumption into question, arguing that 'aliens' are by definition outside the bounds of the community by virtue of a circular reasoning which takes for granted the existence of bounded national communities, and that this process of collective self-definition is deeply political and historically dated. Although national citizenship has enjoyed a privileged position in both theory and practice, its remarkable elasticity has reached its limit, thereby making it more important to find an alternative model. Kostakopoulou develops a new institutional framework for anational citizenship, which can be grafted onto the existing state system, defends it against objections and proposes institutional reform based on an innovative approach to citizenship.

Citizenship · Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Virtue · Computer Science · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration

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