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Citizenship: The History of an Idea

Paul Magnette

March, 2008
Paper, 210 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-9547966-5-5
European Consortium for Political Research Press
$32.50

Citizenship is the main axis of modern political legitimacy... But for all its evident centrality to modern politics, it would be quite wrong to assume that citizenship itself is well understood… Paul Magnette’s book offers an economical and illuminating guide through many of the elements which have gone into the intellectual and ideological history of modern citizenship. In doing so, he clearly surpasses any other recent analysis.

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Political Theory

About the Author

Paul Magnette is since 2001 professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He studied political sciences at the ULB, and obtained a PhD in 1999 with a dissertation Citoyenneté et construction européenne. His research interest is on institutional policies, the European Union, and theories of democracy. In 2000, together with Eric Remacle, he was awarded the Exceptionnal Francqui Prize for European Research.

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