In 1787, revolutionaries in Philadelphia invented a new political identity: citizenship in a large-scale constitutional democracy. That combination, once new and rare, is today being imitated around the globe. Yet despite its great prestige, constitutional democratic citizenship is fraught with tensions that are becoming ever more acute. The DCC series seeks to publish the best empirical and normative explorations of citizenship, democracy, and constitutionalism from scholars in many disciplines, including political science, law, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, communications, literature, and education.
Series Editor:
Jeffrey Green
Professor and Director of Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
Staff Editorial Contact:
Elisabeth Maselli, Senior Editor emaselli@upenn.edu
In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy, political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United States is a failed democracy. Specifically, he contends...
Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Deborah A. Thomas
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253672
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions...
Edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253375
Pub Date: September 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right. The volume starts...
Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person
Erin Daly
Contributions by Aharon Barak
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224757
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific...
National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism
Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252156
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
An ethnographic exploration of the meaning of national citizenship in the context of globalizationThe American Passport in Turkey explores the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the...
More than two millennia ago, Aristotle is said to have compiled a collection of ancient constitutions that informed his studies of politics. For Aristotle, constitutions largely distilled and described...
In Citizenship Beyond Nationality, Luicy Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizens—working, paying taxes, making social contributions,...
An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability; this number grows exponentially when family members, friends, and care providers are included. Various countries and international...
From anxiety about Muslim immigrants in Western Europe to concerns about undocumented workers and cross-border security threats in the United States, disputes over immigration have proliferated and...
The revolution in digital communications has altered the relationship between citizens and political elites, with important implications for democracy. As new information ecosystems have evolved, as...
