Supranational Citizenship
Lynn Dobson
Abstract
This book offers a conception of citizenship that is independent of any specific form of political organisation, while being compatible with multiple levels of political institutionalisation. Its de-contextualised account of citizenship differs from both cosmopolitan and nation-statist accounts. Using that conception, the book addresses topical and normative debates in one particular transnational political association: the European Union. Bringing political theory together with debates in international relations and in citizenship studies, the author argues that citizenship should be understo ... More
This book offers a conception of citizenship that is independent of any specific form of political organisation, while being compatible with multiple levels of political institutionalisation. Its de-contextualised account of citizenship differs from both cosmopolitan and nation-statist accounts. Using that conception, the book addresses topical and normative debates in one particular transnational political association: the European Union. Bringing political theory together with debates in international relations and in citizenship studies, the author argues that citizenship should be understood as an institutional role through which persons might exercise their political agency: their capacities to shape the contexts of their lives and promote the freedom and well-being of themselves and, importantly, fulfil their duties to others within and outside of the polity. The work draws on the rights-based philosophy of Alan Gewirth.
Keywords:
Political theory,
Citizenship,
European Union,
Political association,
Transnational,
Supranational,
International,
Alan Gewirth,
Normative
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780719069529 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2013 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719069529.001.0001 |
