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Supranational citizenship / Lynn Dobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobson, Lynn, author.
- Series:
- Europe in change.
- Europe in change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--European Union countries.
- Citizenship.
- Supranationalism--European Union countries.
- Supranationalism.
- World citizenship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I; 1. Citizenship I: membership, privilege, and place; 2. Citizenship II: status, identity, and role; 3. Citizenship of the European Union; Part II; 4. Gewirth: action and agency; 5. Political agency; 6. Nexus, framework: constituting authority; 7. Agency, authorisation, and representation in the EU; Part III; 8. Gewirth: community, rights, values; 9. Mutual recognition in the supranational polity; 10. The good supranational constitution; Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847794840
- 184779484X
- 9781781702154
- 1781702152
- 9781847794413
- 1847794416
- OCLC:
- 818847473
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