Reinventing Citizenship – On the Connection between Democracy, Rights, and Legitimacy in the Global Political Order [Spanish]

Authors

  • Andreas Niederberger Instituto de Filosofía de la Universidad Goethe en Frankfurt (Main)

Abstract

This article starts by reconstructing the reasons for the modern focus on citizenship as a major guarantee for legitimacy – arguing that citizenship is intricately linked to a republican form of political order. In its second part this paper shows that under the current conditions of globalization citizenships creates or maintains a transnational multi-level order which prevents other persons and polities from realizing (full) citizenship, and even contributes to direct violations of legitimate claims of non-citizens. The third part of the article critically discusses proposals by Archibugi, Owen and Bauböck, how to rethink transnational citizenship or equivalent forms of participation and control. And in its final part it advocates linking the conception of constellational citizenship to a specific form of transnational democracy. With such a link citizenship could continue to be the key factor for legitimacy.

Author Biography

Andreas Niederberger, Instituto de Filosofía de la Universidad Goethe en Frankfurt (Main)

Doctor en filosofía

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