Industrial citizenship, cosmopolitanism and European integration

Global Citizenship as the Completion of Cosmopolitanism

A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the ...

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND NATIONAL SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP Changing Boundaries, New Structuring?

The deepening of European integration has weakened the traditional coercive monopoly of the state on actors and resources that are crucial for the stability of redistributive institutions. The article explores these issues adopting a “state-building” perspective and drawing on Stein Rokkan’s pioneering insights on boundary building and internal structuring. The first part of the article briefly...

Reconciling Identity and Citizenship: A Case for Moral Cosmopolitanism in a Divided World

CIIP - 3 European Integration and National Social Citizenship : Changing Boundaries , New Structuring ? by Maurizio Ferrera

With the creation of EMU, European Welfare States have entered a new phase of development. The margins for manoeuvring public budgets have substantially decreased, while the unfolding of the four freedoms of movement within the EU have seriously weakened the traditional coercive monopoly of the state on actors and resources that are crucial for the stability of redistributive institutions. The ...

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...