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Selected Works of Thomas Janoski
Book
Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes
(1998)
  • Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky
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Abstract
Rights and obligations are confusing. When people really want or need something they call it a right. Can they simply attach this word to anything they want? Can people disregard obligations with impunity? This book argues that they can not. Rights and obligations are systematically related in important ways backed by the state. One must understand those relationships in specific ways to know what can or cannot be done with rights and obligations in public discourse and politics. They must create a web of interaction among citizens so that more long term social investments may be made.
Keywords
  • civil society,
  • citizenship,
  • civil rights,
  • responsibility,
  • political obligation,
  • political theory
Disciplines
Publication Date
February, 1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780521635813
Citation Information
Thomas Janoski. Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes. New York(1998)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomasjanoski/4/