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...................................................................................................................................................DEMOCRACY AND
CITIZENSHIP:
EXPANDING
DOMAINS
...................................................................................................................................................michael saward
1Introduction
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Contemporary political theory includes lively debates about the meaning and
scope of both democracy and citizenship. To survey and comment on some
key recent threads in the arguments, I adopt the frame of ‘‘expanding
domains’’ and link the two concepts together, to ask: What impact might
diVerent innovations in democratic thinking have on our conception of
citizenship? I will explore key ways in which elements of contemporary
innovative conceptions of democracy—deliberative, ‘‘diVerence,’’ cosmopol-
itan, ecological, and others—seek to reconstruct and reconstrue citizens and
citizenship (and often disagree with each other in the process, within and
- In addition to theHandbook’s editors, the author would like to thank Mark Bevir, Andrew
Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik, and Judith Squires for helpful comments on previous drafts.