Author : Elizabeth F. Cohen
Release : 2009-10-26
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics by : Elizabeth F. Cohen
Download or read book Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics written by Elizabeth F. Cohen. This book was released on 2009-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship. Scholars who study citizenship routinely grasp for shared concepts and language that identify forms of membership held by migrants, children, the disabled, and other groups of individuals who, for various reasons, are neither full citizens nor non-citizens. This book introduces the concept of semi-citizenship as a means to dramatically advance debates about individuals who hold some but not all elements of full democratic citizenship. By analytically classifying the rights of citizenship and their various combinations, scholars can typologize semi-citizens and produce comparisons of different kinds of semi-citizenships and of semi-citizenships in different states. The book uses theoretical analysis, historical examples, and contemporary cases of semi-citizenship to illustrate how normative and governmental doctrines of citizenship converge and conflict, making semi-citizenship an enduring and inevitable part of democratic politics.