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Highlights
In recent decades, citizenship theory has seen fierce debates between statist republicans and cosmopolitans
Statist republicans hold that citizenship can only exist at the national level, when it has a direct connection with popular sovereignty
Statist cosmopolitanism may be a reasonably convincing suggestion, it essentially leaves the citizenship at the national level
Summary
The statist republican position finds its origins in the Athenian polis and the writings of Aristotle (Pocock 1992, 32). Formal citizenship can be a great equalizer, but, as David Miller emphasizes, all depends on the degree to which informal and formal inclusion coincide: Equal citizenship means that every adult member of the political community must enjoy equal rights and responsibilities which together make up the single status of citizen. This is a one-class status – when we talk about people as second-class citizens, we do so in order to draw attention to the fact that something has gone wrong, that our institutions are not performing in the way that they should: no one can legitimately be a second-class citizen (Miller 2008, 375). It is against this – sometimes only implied – narrative that cosmopolitans have launched their main criticisms
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