Of citizenship, virtue, and the administrative imperative: Deconstructing Aristotelian civic republicanism

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Kalu, KN
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/1540-6210.00305
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 418-427
• 关键词: Leadership; state

摘要

Over the years, the public administration literature has generated many different strands in the definition and conceptualization of citizenship. In theory and in practice., our understanding of what it means to be a citizen is in danger of being muddled amid the diversity of perspectives and the epistemological confusion generated in the contemporary discourse on the subject. My aim in this article is to clarify and elaborate a common thread that runs through our contemporary understanding of citizenship and to advance the general thesis that our brand of theorizing reflects an earlier tradition that embodies the conservative ethos of Aristotelian republicanism. Can such a tradition survive in modem American society?