Theories of Citizenship
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Introduction to Citizenship
Brown, Michael. Replacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy. New
York: Guilford Press, 1997.
Dagger, Richard. “Metropolis, Memory, and Citizenship.” American Journal of
Political Science 25:715-37.
Heater, Derek. Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics, and Education.
London: Longman, 1990.
Marshall, T.H. Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1950.
Pocock, J. G. A. “The Ideal of Citizenship since Classical Times” in Ronald Beiner, ed.
Theorizing Citizenship. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Shklar, Judith. American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1991.
van Steenbergen, Bart. The Condition of Citizenship. London: Sage Publications, 1994.
[selected essays]
Villa, Dana. Socratic Citizenship. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2001.
Liberal Theory of Citizenship and its Critics
Berlin, Isaiah. “Two Concepts of Liberty,” in Liberalism and Its Critics, Michael Sandel,
ed., New York: New York University Press, 1984.
Dagger, Richard. Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship and Republican Liberalism. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dworkin, Ronald. Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1978.
Galston, William. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Duties in the Liberal State.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Pateman, Carol. The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critique of Liberal Theory.
New York: Wiley, 1979.
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Sandel, Michael. Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
--- . “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self.” Political Theory 12:81-96.
Civil Society Theory
Etzioni, Amitai. Rights and the Common Good: The Communitarian Perspective. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. [selected essays]
Gutmann, Amy, ed. Freedom of Association. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1998. [selected essays]
Marston, S.A. “The Private goes Public: Citizenship and the New Spaces of Civil
Society.” Political Geography 14, no. 2, (1995): 194.
Putnam, Robert D. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Journal of
Democracy 6.1 (1995):65-78.
Walzer, Michael. Toward a Global Civil Society. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995.
[selected essays]
Communitarian or Civic Republican Views of Citizenship
Avineri, Shlomo and Avner De-Shalit, eds. Communitarianism and Individualism.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1992. [selected essays]
Bader, Veit. “Citizenship and Exclusion: Radical Democracy, Community, and Justice
Or, What Is Wrong with Communitarianism?” Political Theory vol. 23, no. 2 (May
1995): 211.
Barber, Benjamin. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
Tam, Henry. Communitarianism: A New Agenda for Politics and Citizenship. New
York: New York University Press, 1998.
Walzer, Michael. “The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism.” Political Theory 18:623.
Feminist Theories of Citizenship
Bickford, Susan. “Anti-anti-identity Politics: Feminism, Democracy, and the
Complexities of Citizenship.” Hypatia 405, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 111-131.
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Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political
Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Dietz, Mary. “Citizenship with a Feminist Face: The Problem of Maternal Thinking” in
Feminism, The Public and the Private, Joan B. Landes, ed., Oxford: Oxford University
Press: 1998.
James, Susan. “The Good-enough Citizen: Citizenship and Independence” in Beyond
Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics, and Female Subjectivity, Gisela
Block and Susan James, eds., London: Routledge, 1992.
Okin, Susan. “Women, Equality, and Citizenship.” Queen’s Quarterly 99 (1992): 56-71.
Pateman, Carol. The Sexual Contract. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
-- . “Equality, Difference, and Subordination: The Politics of Motherhood and
Women’s Citizenship” in Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist
Politics, and Female Subjectivity, Gisela Block and Susan James, eds., London:
Routledge, 1992.
Pettus, Katherine. “Ecofeminist Citizenship.” Hypatia 405, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 132-155.
Sarvasy, Wendy. “Beyond the Difference and versus Equality Policy Debate:
Postsuffrage Feminism, Citizenship, and the Quest for a Feminist Welfare State.” Signs
17(2): 329-62.
Silbergleid, Robin. “Women, Utopia, and Narrative: Toward a Postmodern Feminist
Citizenship.” Hypatia 405, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 156-177.
Cultural Pluralism and Citizenship or Differentiated Citizenship
Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas: 1964-1982. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1983.
Kukathas, Chandran. “Are there any cultural rights?” in The Rights of Minority Cultures,
Will Kymlicka, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. New York:
Basic Books, 1983.
Young, Iris Marion. “Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal Universal
Citizenship.” Ethics 99, no. 2: 250-74.
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Left & Right Theories
Mead, Lawrence. Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship. New
York: Free Press, 1986.
Pierson, Christopher. Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of
Welfare. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
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