Ethical Citizenship: British Idealism and the Politics of Recognition (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy) - Hardcover

Citizenship has come under increasing strain in the face of globalization. Our world gets ever smaller while it sometimes seems our borders are becoming ever more closed. What is citizenship and how can it be ethical? Should citizens owe each other special duties denied to non-citizens? How might theories about citizenship impact on our practices?

Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today in the first full length examination of this topic. Ethical citizenship is a communitarian relationship between members of a community based around a shared conception of the common good first defended by British Idealists. This book explores its historical roots, contemporary relevance and application to international politics in an engaging work by leading international scholars bringing together theory and practice.

 

Leslie Armour, University of Ottawa, Canada Gregory Claeys, University of London, UK James Connelly, University of Hull, UK Maria Dimova-Cookson, Durham University, UK Owen James Fellows, University of Hull, UK Matthew Hann, Durham University, UK Robert Kocis, University of Scranton, USA William J. Mander, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK Rex Martin, Cardiff University, UK Avital Simhony, Arizona State University, USA