In general, the realization of major principles and dimensions of citizenship, especially with regard to people’s rights, entitlements, and obligations, is largely determined by the nature of the state, which varies depending on its socio-historical context. It is argued in this article that the recent decades have witnessed a fundamental shift in the nature of the state worldwide, based on neo...

The article aims to discuss the school's education for citizenship and democracy in light of the economic crisis in the early 1990s and the subsequent depletion of the Swedish welfare state. Increased economic inequality, exclusion and marginalization of the school as well as in society in general raise the question about the school equivalency. The discussion sets out from a theoretical approa...

This study contributes to our understanding of which factors predict raters’ policies for combining performance components into an overall job performance rating. We used a work-roles framework to examine the effects of rater source and team-based culture. The sample consisted of 612 individuals in three job categories (317 nurses, 168 personnel recruiters and 127 sales representatives). Respon...

A growing body of research quantifies the recent impact of fiscal consolidation and public service reform in liberal welfare regimes. However, less is known about how this is affecting the common terms upon which citizenship status is granted and experienced. With this in mind, this article examines what bearing the political crafting of welfare austerity is having on the status, rights and ide...

The study reported in this article assesses whether two concepts measured in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2009, namely (1) student’s perceptions of the importance of conventional citizenship and (2) student’s perceptions of the importance of socialmovement-related citizenship, are comparable across all countries participating in the study. In particular by mean...

OBJECTIVE examine the social representations of citizenship by inpatients receiving hospital care. METHOD qualitative approach, using the Theory of Social Representations as a framework, with 31 inpatients in the internal medicine sector of a public university hospital. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, whose data were submitted to the Alceste program, with application of lexical ana...

Various studies have been conducted to study the relationship between job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior but a very little work have been done to study the impact of both job involvement and organizational commitment on “organizational citizenship behavior”. Thus the purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between job involvement, organizational commitment and ...