Citizenship Goes Public: The Institutional Design of Anational Citizenship

Theodora Kostakopoulou 

University of Southampton - School of Law
2009

Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 3, p. 275, 2009
Southampton Law School Research Paper 
Abstract:      
Citizenship has been an oligarchic good and that this has given rise to a number of important externalities. Citizenship might be best conceived of as a network good with low excludability. Although we tend to believe that being together and doing things together presuppose either a prior cultural cum political homogeneity or the favourable reception of a national culture, I argue that domicile and equal participation in the social, economic and political spheres of the community may provide a better foundation for citizenship than the priority thesis underpinning liberal nationalism and contractarian moral theory. The papers outlines a model of anational citizenship and defends it against possible objections.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 45

Keywords: nationalism, citizenship, liberal nationalism, inclusive democracy, domicile

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