Supranational citizenship
- ISBN: 9780719069529
- Editorial: Manchester University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2006
- Lugar de la edición: Manchester. Reino Unido
- Colección: Europe in Change
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 194
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book brings together political theory and debates about European integration, international relations, and the changing nature of citizenship, and offers a coherent and innovative theorisation of a citizenship independent of any specific form of political organisation. It relates that conception of citizenship to topical issues of the European Union - democracy and legitimate authority; non-national political community; and the nature of the supranational constitution. This book: argues that citizenship should no longer be seen as a status of privileged membership, but instead as an institutional role enabling individuals' capacities to shape the context of their lives and promote the freedom and well-being of others; and draws on and develops ideas found in the work of the philosopher Alan Gewirth.
