Citizenship Citizenship is among the most important concepts in the contemporary world. On the macro level, citizenship is used as a category to allocate the more than 5 billion people on this planet among the various nation-states. On the micro level,...

Citizenship is the status of being a legally recognized member of a nation-state or other political community, possessing rights such as voting and owing duties such as jury service. In democratic thought, citizens generally are expected to be more...

relationship between an individual and a state in which an individual owes allegiance to that state and in turn is entitled to its protection. Citizenship implies the status of freedom with accompanying responsibilities. Citizens have certain rights,...

Only a state, that is, an internationally recognized entity, can grant a person citizenship. One cannot be a citizen of an ethnic group or of a nationality which is not organized as a state. Nor is citizenship confined to democratic states. The...

Citizenship as an idea was revived in the 1980s. In Western Europe and North America there was a growing concern that Western individualism and consumerist lifestyles had eroded the importance of political community. In the face of new questions being...

At its core, citizenship is a legal status, although increasingly political theorists are seeking to return the concept to an earlier usage when it was, in their view, much more than that. As a legal status the grant of citizenship gives people rights...

In novels dealing with the French Revolution of 1789, ‘citizen’ occurs as a translated form of both citoyen and citoyenne, though ‘citizeness’ is also used for the latter. These titles were substituted by decree for Monsieur and...

Relationship between an individual and a state in which the individual owes allegiance to the state and in turn is entitled to its protection. In general, full political rights, including the right to vote and to hold public office, are predicated on...

A good citizen owes his life to his country....

Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city or town but now usually a country) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. It is largely coterminous with nationality,...