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GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP

GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP. Dr Maurice Mullard Malta Lectures. Malta Debate on Citizenship. Labour Manifesto 1996 used the concept of citizen Marshall sense pf three pillars Civil Rights Political Rights Social Rights. Dimensions of Citizenship. Back to Marshall

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GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP

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  1. GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP Dr Maurice Mullard Malta Lectures

  2. Malta Debate on Citizenship • Labour Manifesto 1996 used the concept of citizen • Marshall sense pf three pillars • Civil Rights • Political Rights • Social Rights

  3. Dimensions of Citizenship • Back to Marshall • Civil Rights human rights discourse UDHR HRA Covenants on Human Rights • Bill of rights • Written Constitution • UK Magna Carta 1215 • Bill of Rights 1688 US Constitution France

  4. Protect Civil Liberties • Problem of Surveillance Society • The Individual and the State • CCTV • Wiretaps • Emails

  5. Political Rights • Democratic Benchmarks voting rights secret ballots frequent elections democracy and equality • Accountable Government • Transparency Freedom of Information • Electoral turnouts • Political Elites • Income Inequality and Concentrations of wealth

  6. Political Rights • Challenges to democracy • Political Parties use of technology • Micro States and Clientilist politics • Emergence of political Elites • The Constitution • European Declaration of Human Rights • Citizenship beyond the Nation State

  7. Social Rights • Rights to Welfare equal opportunities equal access health and education • Social Security stigma deserving and undeserving poor • Definitions of Poverty • Golden Age and the Post War Settlement • Retreat from universal welfare

  8. Social Rights • European Model of Social Welfare universal benefits • US Model Residual model Obama response to recession • Problem of Recession and the Savings Glut thesis

  9. Responses to Globalisation • (1) Global Citizen • Discourse of Citizenship moves beyond the boundaries of the nation state – universal discourses • Cosmopolitan values Greek Stoics Roman Citizenship • Cosmopolitan feckless not to be trusted no allegiance to nation state • Common humanity

  10. Consumer Citizen • Emergence of consumer society • Defining identity consumption and the national economy 80 per cent of GDP consumer led • Home ownership housing as wealth effect • Share ownership and the Stock Exchange • Economic prosperity consumer led growth

  11. Ethics of Consumer Society • Citizen as consumer good and markets • Connection with government as consumers • Consumers of welfare quasi markets • Education and schools pupil generated formulas • Health GP fund holders • Higher Education and student fees

  12. Globalisation Limits of Consumer Society • World population of 6bn – 800 million consumers • Mainly in Europe USA Japan world markets directed at few consumers • Recession of 2009 US Consumers loss of wealth effect • Countries unable to export Japan China Germany • Consumers in Africa estimate of 10 million population of 450 million China 1.2 bn 50 million Consumers

  13. Responses to challenges • Consumer Citizen – seeking safety – politics of fear • Global Citizen – cosmopolitan need for protest and struggles

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