Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability. A growing number of people are enrag

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an '

A comparative study of how citizens define their civic duty in response to current threats to advanced democracies.

Traditional conceptions of citizenship have dealt almost exclusively with political life within one state. But the internationalization of so much economic, cul

In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social righ