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A Theory Of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality In Contemporary Democracies
Author(s): Herman R. Van Gunsteren (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28 Aug. 2019
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 0367314304
- ISBN-13: 9780367314309
Book Description
Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize our differences, that allows people to live together as citizens in a republic? Whereas liberal, republican, and communitarian theories of citizenship analyzed the conditions of citizenship, the central message of this book is that the practical exercise of citizenship
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About the Author
Herman R. Van Gunsteren is professor of political theory at Leiden University and the author of Time for Retirement (1991) and The Quest for Control (1976).
