Citizenship in Modern Britain

Keith Faulks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1998
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-0989-5 (ISBN)

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This textbook provides an introduction to the theory and practice of citizenship in modern Britain. Keith Faulks looks at liberal theories of citizenship, including classical, social and neo-liberal conceptions, and outlines the flaws in these theories at both a conceptual level and in practical terms. This is done via a detailed examination of the Thatcherite governments of 1979 to 1997 and concludes with an assessment of the future of citizenship under Tony Blair's leadership.The author argues that the development of citizenship in Britain has to be understood in terms of the complex inter-relationship of the state, economy and social change and puts forward a more sophisticated theory for understanding how citizenship has developed in Britain, concluding that a truly inclusive and meaningful concept of citizenship must look beyond the limits of liberal theory and the liberal state.

Keith Faulks is Reader in Citizenship at the University of Central Lancashire. Author of Citizenship in Modern Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Political Sociology: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) Citizenship: Key Ideas in Social Science (Routledge, 2000) and co-author of Get Set For Politics (with Ken Phillips and Alex Thomson) (Edinburgh University Press, 2003).

Part 1 Citizenship in liberal theory: citizenship in classical liberal theory; T.H. Marshall, social liberal theory; neo-liberalism and citizenship. Part 2 Liberal citizenship in practice: Thatcherism, neo-liberalism and citizenship; the context of citizenship in Britain; active citizens?; passive citizens? Part 3 Beyond liberal citizenship?: assessment, challenges and prospects.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.1998
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	559 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7486-0989-X / 074860989X
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-0989-5 / 9780748609895
Zustand	Neuware