Participation, Responsibility and Choice Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States

Informationen zum Autor Janet Newman is professor of social policy and criminology at The Open University, UK. Evelien Tonkens is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ,1 Introduction, 2 Citizenship and healthcare in Germany, 3 The embrace of responsibility, 4 From social citizenship to active citizenship?, 5 Active citizenship in Norwegian elderly care, 6 Mobilising the active citizen in the UK, 7 Dividing or combining citizens, Just being an 'active citizen'?, 9 Caring responsibilities, 10 Active citizenship, 11 Active citizens, activist professionals, 12 Towards a feminist politics of active citizenship, About the editors and contributors, Index

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• Assisted by: Janet Newman (Editor), Evelien Tonkens (Editor)
• Authors: Janet Tonkens Newman, Dr. Janet Tonkens Newman
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.04.2011
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9789089642752
• ISBN: 978-90-8964-275-2
• Pages: 244
• Series: Care and Welfare; Care & Welfare; Amsterdam University Press