Stories of Peoplehood The Politics and Morals of Political Membership

Informationen zum Autor Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published over seventy articles and is author or co-author of the following books: The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (with Philip A. Klinkner, 1990); Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (1997); Citizenship without Consent: The Illegal Alien in the American Polity (with Peter H. Schuck, 1985); and Liberalism and American Constitutional Law (1985, rev. ed. 1990). Klappentext Assesses the role of 'stories of peoplehood' in building and binding political societies. Zusammenfassung How is a sense of belonging to a political community created? Rogers Smith emphasises the importance of 'stories of peoplehood'! which present membership as intrinsic to our identity. Combining theory with examples from around the world! this is an original and provocative account of how nations are bound together. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: on studying stories of peoplehood; Part I. Explaining the Political Role of Stories of Peoplehood: 1. Elements of a theory of people-making; 2. The role of ethically constitutive stories; Part II. Constructing Political Peoplehood in Morally Defensible Ways: 3. Ethically constitutive stories and norms of allegiance; 4. A pioneering people.

Product details

• Authors: Rogers M. Smith, Rogers M. (University of Pennsylvania) Smith, M.smith Rogers
• Assisted by: Russell Hardin (Editor), Ian Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 19.06.2003
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780521813037
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81303-7
• Pages: 248
• Series: Contemporary Political Theory; Contemporary Political Theory
• Subjects: Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Nationalism, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements