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The myth of full citizenship :A comparative study of semi-citizenship in democratic polities.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The myth of full citizenship :
Reminder of title:	A comparative study of semi-citizenship in democratic polities.
Author:	Cohen, Elizabeth F.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Director: Rogers M. Smith.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3825.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109384
ISBN:	0496569260

The myth of full citizenship :A comparative study of semi-citizenship in democratic polities.
Cohen, Elizabeth F.

The myth of full citizenship :A comparative study of semi-citizenship in democratic polities. [electronic resource] - 253 p.

Director: Rogers M. Smith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2003.

Theorists of democratic politics have long noted the importance of citizenship to the realization of liberal norms. Citizenship provides an artificial identity to members so that they may meet as equals in the public domain. The constraints of equality dictate that this identity will have a unitary face: citizenship must be a single status if it is to serve its stated purpose. However upon examination, citizenship appears to take multiple forms that reflect a range of political statuses that exist within the confines of democratic politics. The civil, political and social rights of citizenship as well as the status of nationality come unbound from one another in ways that create multiple forms of partial, or semi-citizenship. Semi-citizenships provide states with opportunities to organize and govern otherwise "illegible" or "irrational" sub-sections of the population. They also often offer individuals the chance to adopt identities that diverge from those referenced by classic notions of the citizen.

ISBN: 0496569260Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

The myth of full citizenship :A comparative study of semi-citizenship in democratic polities.
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520 # $a Theorists of democratic politics have long noted the importance of citizenship to the realization of liberal norms. Citizenship provides an artificial identity to members so that they may meet as equals in the public domain. The constraints of equality dictate that this identity will have a unitary face: citizenship must be a single status if it is to serve its stated purpose. However upon examination, citizenship appears to take multiple forms that reflect a range of political statuses that exist within the confines of democratic politics. The civil, political and social rights of citizenship as well as the status of nationality come unbound from one another in ways that create multiple forms of partial, or semi-citizenship. Semi-citizenships provide states with opportunities to organize and govern otherwise "illegible" or "irrational" sub-sections of the population. They also often offer individuals the chance to adopt identities that diverge from those referenced by classic notions of the citizen.
520 # $a This dissertation combines a theoretical inquiry into the realities of modern citizenship with focused case studies examining instances of semi-citizenship. Each case study demonstrates the degree to which semi-citizenship is inevitable in democratic politics both by looking at various national contexts and by recalling the presence of such statuses throughout the history of the modern state. The statuses held by non-nationals, GLBTs, children and convicted felons demonstrate a unique set of state responses to forms of membership that do not correspond to the categories of citizen or non-citizen. Each of these statuses has existed in a wide range of temporal and geographic circumstances. Deprived of nationality, civil rights and political rights, these groups exist in democracies without being governed democratically, yet in some cases they are able to turn such statuses to their advantage. States compensate in a variety of ways ranging from special or additional rights, to benign neglect, to paternalism. While vulnerable to critique, these compensatory measures indicate an acceptance of the fact that citizenship is composed of several distinct forms of membership and may also provide opportunities for tailoring citizenship to meet individual needs.
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