Politics of citizenship: Towards an analytical framework

Stokke, Kristian

doi:10.1080/00291951.2017.1369454

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“…This example demonstrates that citizenship can be an instrument for different political agendas. Furthermore, Stokke (2017) asserts that citizenship is brought by post-political governance and governmentality from 'above' as well as struggles for membership and participation from 'below'. A "popular" politics of citizenship, that is, the political agendas and strategies used by non-elite forces for inclusion in communities of citizens and for citizenship rights, has emerged.…”

Section: Transformational and Transactional Leadership For Cultivatinmentioning

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Transformational and Transactional Leadership, Understanding How Leadership Cultivates Democratic Citizenship in Panggungharjo, Bantul, Yogyakarta

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Wardhani

2019

Power, Conflict and Democracy Journal

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Leadership is essential in promoting democratic citizenship, and the village government level is not an exception. Using the experience of Panggungharjo Village, Bantul, this paper tries to understand the roles of leadership in supporting the fulfillment of citizens’ rights being related to the context of the Law 6/2014 on Village. Based on interviews conducted during October-November 2016, this paper found that transactional and transformational leadership approaches, conceptualized by Burns (1978), as Panggungharjo Head Village applies, are influential to the effectiveness of public services and welfare provisions. When used complementary and strategically, the two leadership styles determine the effectiveness of village leadership and reform initiatives. Indeed, there is an issue of power that is crucial to take into account. In comprehending this important aspect, Lukes’s (1976, 2005) concept of power dimensions is helpful. His diagram of power consists of tangible power engineering (First Dimension), a new system of procedures that create barriers for potential political opponents (Second Dimension), and the enactment of new norms (Third Dimension). In Panggungharjo the Village Head’s leadership, approach is widely recognized as one the success stories in Indonesian village governance. Nevertheless, this effective and functioning government has resulted in a leadership practice that has created “beneficiaries” rather than “shaper and maker” citizens (Gaventa 2001, 2002, 2004). This outcome may not optimally underpin active citizenship, since in order to promote democratic citizenship, active citizens are a prerequisite.

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Section: Transformational and Transactional Leadership For Cultivatinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformational and Transactional Leadership, Understanding How Leadership Cultivates Democratic Citizenship in Panggungharjo, Bantul, Yogyakarta

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Wardhani

2019

Power, Conflict and Democracy Journal

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“…This perspective includes the liberal position that democratic consolidation requires a vibrant and autonomous civil society to ensure transparency, accountability, and legitimacy of the state and governance (Edwards, 2011;Mercer, 2002;Ottaway & Carothers, 2000). It also contains more radical approaches that foreground antagonistic relations and contentious politics of citizenship by social movements, trade unions, and joint alliances (della Porta & Diani, 2015;Holston, 2009;Stokke, 2017;Tilly & Tarrow, 2007;Van der Heijden, 2014).…”

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Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics

Stokke

2018

Geography Compass

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Democracy has attained a hegemonic position both as a normative ideal and as the dominant form of government, but there are growing concerns about democratic decline and crisis. The numerical growth of democracies has slowed down, and there have been some reversals from democratic to authoritarian rule in recent years. Nevertheless, the primary concern is about the substance of formal democracies, especially as recent democratic transitions have tended to produce depoliticized democracies and hybrid forms of rule rather than substantive democracy. This article uses the growth and decline of democracy as an occasion to review the current state of democracy in the world, discusses the links between the modality of democratic transition and problems of post‐transition democratic substance, and examines competing approaches to democratic deepening. A case is made for shifting the perspective on democratization, from democratic transitions to the open‐ended politics of substantial democratization. This means that the analytical approach should be broadened from elitist institutional design for electoral democracy to transformative democratic politics. The article presents this line of argument and provides brief illustrations based on recent transitions in the Global South.

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“…The process of defining membership in communities involves both inclusion and exclusion, and is therefore inherently political. 44 Communities of solidarity can therefore be constructed in different ways. For instance, the organization Love Save Pneumoconiosis reaches out to poor workers suffering from the occupational lung disease pneumoconiosis.…”

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Re-theorizing civil society in China: Agency and the discursive politics of civil society engagement

2018

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Scholarship on Chinese civil society has produced rich empirical studies, but there have been few attempts to theorize the empirical knowledge acquired. Moreover, the question of how to conceptualize the political agency of civil society in a non-democratic context has received limited systematic attention. In this conceptual article, we draw on a discursive approach to politics to analyse the political agency of Chinese civil society. Our analysis is based on synthesizing insights gained through three separate research projects. We propose a conceptual framework which focuses on how civil society actors position themselves within a structured political space, how they represent social groups and issues through advocacy, how they care for these groups, and how they engage in processes of identity formation. Taken together, these four modalities constitute a framework for analysing the different political dimensions of civil society agency.

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Politics of citizenship: Towards an analytical framework

Cited by 39 publications

References 66 publications

Transformational and Transactional Leadership, Understanding How Leadership Cultivates Democratic Citizenship in Panggungharjo, Bantul, Yogyakarta

Transformational and Transactional Leadership, Understanding How Leadership Cultivates Democratic Citizenship in Panggungharjo, Bantul, Yogyakarta

Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics

Re-theorizing civil society in China: Agency and the discursive politics of civil society engagement

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