Citizenship, Markets, and the State

Download or read book Citizenship, Markets, and the State written by Colin Crouch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the neo-liberal marketization of citizenship and the resulting processes of individualization proceed, debates on citizenship tend to flounder in outmoded ideological oppositions. By examining concrete cases and processes that accompany contemporary practices of citizenship, this volume brings analytical clarity to contemporary debates about citizenship. The state, the market and the forum are analysed as competing fields of citizenship practice, and it is their complex relationship which helps us to understand the role and function not only of the debate on citizenship, but of the institutions and practices of citizenship itself in the contemporary world.