Public Rights, Public Rules: Constituting Citizens in the World Polity and National Policy / Edition 1

by Connie L. McNeely

Overview

The dramatic changes that have occurred in modern nation-states have engendered a renewed and increasing interest in issues of citizenship and rights. The original essays in this collection describe the formation and transformation of citizenship and rights, considering issues such as legal culture, sovereignty, jurisdiction, diversity, welfare, and related state norms, structures, practices, and resources. Employing a variety of theoretical frameworks and sociological orientations, the contributors explore the creation of public boundaries, along with changes in the rules defining citizenship roles, identities, and rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815321262
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1998
Series:	States and Societies , #1
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Connie L. McNeely

Table of Contents

Constituting Citizens: Rights and Rules, Connie L. McNeely * World Polity: Global Processes and Transnational EffectsState and Society in a World Unbound, David Jacobson * Dynamics of Citizenship Development and the Political Incorporation of Women: A Global Institutionalization Research Agenda, Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer * Women's Alternative Path to Citizenship: An Examination of Global Employment Policy, Nitza Berkovitch * Citizenship in the Curriculum: Globalization of Civics Education in Anglophone Africa, 1955-1995, Mary Rauner * State and Citizenship under Transformation in Western Europe, Lars Bo KaspersenNational Policy: Rights, Resources, And Identities * Rights, Relationality, and Membership: Rethinking the Making and Meaning of Citizenship, Margaret R. Somers * Classificatory Logics of State Welfare Systems: Towards a Formal Analysis, John Mohr * Gendering the Analysis of Welfare States (with examples from Australia and the U.S.), Ann Orloff * Collective Identities, Women's Agency, and the Framing of Citizenship, Barbara Hobson * Substantiating a Worker's Right to Compensation, T. Ryken Grattet * Citizenship and Rights: Worker Protection in Germany and the United States, Dula J. Espinosa * Contested Citizenship: Dynamics of Racial Identity and Social Movements, Anthony W. Marx * ConclusionRights and Rules: Constituting World Citizens, John Boli

Editorial Reviews

The 14 chapters contained in this volume analyze the interplay of global and local forces in the conceptualization of citizenship, as they contribute to and are affected by the extension of both rights and rules in the public sphere. Themes include race, class, and gender; institutional sites, processes, and resources; and relationships between public and private definitions, concepts, structures, and practices, with an emphasis on citizenship and membership and sociopolitical, legal, and cultural structures, practices, and transformations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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