Yeni ve sivil bir anayasa yapılması, uzun süredir Türkiye’nin gündemindedir. Konu üzerinde birçok tartışma yapılmaktadır. Bu tartışmalardan biri de anayasal vatandaşlıktır, yani onun üst kimlik olup olamayacağı meselesidir. çerçevede bazılarına göre kimlik, vatandaşlık olmalıdır. Diğer taraftan bazıları ise bunun olamayacağını söylemektedir. Kimlik, kavramları arasında karşılıklı ilişkinin oldu...

The recent popularity of nationalist movements bears witness to the continued power national feeling in politics. This article considers potential relationship between different kinds attachments and what we call active allegiant citizenship—support for democracy, community participation, prosocial behavior. We analyze these relationships using data from two waves European Values Study. find th...

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to profound changes in ethnicity and identity policies and practices in the newly independent countries, including Kazakhstan. The ethnically diverse population of Kazakhstan presented a particularly unique challenge for the new regime and its approaches to the identity-building policies. This paper focuses on the ethnic and identity-building policies of Kaz...

Immigrants' access to citizenship in their country of residence is increasingly debated in Western democracies. It is an underlying premise of these debates that citizenship and national belonging are closely linked, but at the same time there is considerable cross-country variation in how citizenship is approached in Western democracies. In the literature, these differences are typically under...

Contemporary citizenship and democracy encompass a wide range of political, civil and social rights and responsibilities for both the individual and the state. An active, effective and responsible citizenship, in contemporary times, requires that people be empowered to exercise those rights and responsibilities towards other people, the community and the state. Citizens should be vigilant regar...

ideological discourse surrounding multiculturalism as a value principle. In this chapter we will proceed to unpack the concept of multiculturalism as an ideological paradigm, and develop certain normative criteria with which to judge the current model of cultural pluralism in Canada. Regardless of strict definitions, multiculturalism, or the “politics of difference,” is a response to the late t...