Introduction to Political Theory

‘Being British’: pride, passports and princes I n February 2004, 19 immigrants received British passports in a ceremony in which ...

Citizenship and liberalism The notion of citizenship arises with ancient Greek thinkers (much of the argument here follows Hoffm ...

other hand, appears to be bleakly negative towards the concept of citizenship, arguing that it seems to ignore the realities of ...

saying that the vote is a knife and fork question: the demand for citizenship must be a demand for resources which make individu ...

process that has been taking place for some 250 years (1992: 7). He opens up the prospect of the need to continue progress, give ...

Gray speaks of Hayek ‘purifying’ classical liberalism of its errors of abstract individualism and rationalism (Faulks, 1998: 61) ...

Citizenship and the case for a basic income As long as social rights are seen as special entitlements for those who have ‘failed ...

A guaranteed income is in the interests of all. A basic income would (along with many other egalitarian measures) help to reduc ...

Bryson has noted that women find it more difficult to have their voices heard, their priorities acknowledged and their interests ...

we have suggested above), so that it empowers rather than degrades and diminishes women. Women cannot be citizens unless they ar ...

However, we cannot accept Pateman’s argument that citizenship itself is a patriarchal category, although it is perfectly true th ...

rights in more than one country. Heater presses the case for a fluid and flexible notion of citizenship, stating that membership ...

Citizenship within the European Union The European Union (EU) is concerned about equalisation and redistributive social policies ...

the right to petition the Parliament and refer matters to the Ombudsman – are bestowed on individuals even if they are not membe ...

that we are all members of a ‘common State’ and presenting the ‘Universe’ as if ‘it were a State’ (1999: 135). Yet the case for ...

missile technology (2002: 2), but the state’s mechanism for protecting ‘its’ subjects has always been contradictory and paradoxi ...

Marx, as is argued in Chapter 10 on Socialism, is torn between a view of revolution simply as change, and a notion, derived from ...

governmentally provided if the market cannot deliver. Perhaps the exceptions are rather more prolific than Adair Turner – an adv ...

privileges that make them ‘victors’, but patriarchy oppresses everyone (albeit in different ways). Men have begun to realise tha ...

It is important that we evaluate all differences positively (see Chapter 21 on Difference). Although it is likely that the strug ...