Citizenship

"The introduction sets the historical context for the emergence of citizenship, the revolutionary periods in its evolution, and the underlying paradox that citizenship never fully overcomes primordialist practices. Six propositions shape the book's exposition, on: the underlying "grammar" of citizenship; the paradoxical character of rights, which may undermine as well reinforce civic society; the role of interest and identity, respectively, in collective action; the importance of "social embeddedness" for the functioning of citizenship; the concept of seams as a better conceptual framing than borders in revealing the present global environment; and the increasingly evident empirical basis for prescribing a "21st century guild" to help repair democracy"--