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How does democratic politics construct citizenship?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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For T. H. Marshall (Citizenship and Social Class, 1950), citizenship is a status held by full members of a community, equal in rights and duties. It is not a natural fact that democracy merely records but an artefact that democratic politics produces and keeps revising across four dimensions: status, rights, participation and identity.

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  • Status: drawing the boundary
  • Rights: claims become entitlements
  • Participation: citizens are made by acting
  • Identity and difference
  • Conclusion
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