Market Citizenship

Experiments in Democracy and Globalization

What is the future of citizenship in the 21st century? How will it fuse with today's concerns of globalization and the market? Citizenship is now a key battleground in the fight over the direction of personal and political morality, domestic and global policy, social justice and the spread of violence across the world. Drawing on a rich fund of empirical material, the author analyzes a new paradigm of social relations: market citizenship.

As a compelling account of the past and future of citizenship, this book:

• Provides a comprehensive and authoritative view of citizenship, from classical Athens to contemporary issues
• Links citizenship to topical and practical concerns such as 9/11 and the increase in cynicism
• Develops a new analysis of why self-interest is now seen as central to citizenship
• Demonstrates how market models of governance are now being used in real-life experiments with democracy, the environment, and globalization
• Shows how the public sector is essential for driving change