Abstract
Abstract Citizenship, usually in tandem with community, returned to political debate in Britain in the late 1980s in a remarkable way. A. H. Halsey had signalled the theme even before the decade began; his 1977 Reith Lectures concluded with a plea for ‘a democracy of citizens’ (1978: chap. 8). Matters went quiet with the initial triumph of the new right and its vision of privatized individualism. Then in 1985 Michael Mann argued, from a sociologically informed Labour point of view, that the concept of shared social citizenship in T. H. Marshall’s (1950) sense provided the basis for a revival of socialism in the face of this new hegemony. Marshall had described three stages in the development of modern British citizenship in rather stylized form, from civil rights in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through political rights in the nineteenth, to social rights in the twentieth-century welfare state.
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