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Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships

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ROGERS M. SMITH*
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University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Political Science, United States, [email protected].
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Abstract

Most modern Western political theories embrace equal citizenship as a normative ideal. Many scholars, however, focus on “legal citizenship” and conceive of equal citizenship as uniformity of legal rights and duties. Others focus on experiences of “lived citizenship” and conceive of equal citizenship as achieving sufficient economic, political, and social standing for persons to be seen as civic equals. Using the United States as its example, this article offers a unifying framework for mapping the relationship of legal citizenship to lived citizenship. It illustrates the value of this framework by using it show why realistic efforts to achieve equal citizenship must aim for not uniform legal rights and duties but instead equity in the possession of economic resources, political representation, and social recognition among different categories of citizens.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 116 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 101 - 115
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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