This volume brings together leading scholars in the field who examine the complex and growing debate on citizenship. The contributors systematically address the ambiguities of citizenship and confront the growing marketization of citizenship.

1. Introduction: Dilemmas of Citizenship ; PART I: THE MARKETIZATION OF CITIZENSHIP ; 2. Romancing the Market, Reviling the State: Historicizing Liberalism, Privatization, and the Competing Claims to Civil Society ; 3. Poor Citizens. Social Citizenship versus Individualization of Welfare ; 4. Redesigning the Canadian Citizenship Regime: Remaking the Institutions of Representation ; 5. The Marketization of Public Services ; 6. Citizenship and Markets in Recent British Education Policy ; 7. Prospects for Effective Social Citizenship in an Age of Structural Inactivity ; PART II: THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP ; 8. Citizenship through Direct Democracy? The Broken Promises of Empowerment ; 9. Institutions, Culture and Identity of Trans-National Citizenship: How Much Integration and Communal Spirit is Needed? ; 10. Social Movement Organizations and the Democratic Order. Reorganizing the Social Basis of Political Citizenship in Complex Societies ; 11. The Civic Networking Movement: The Internet as a New Democratic Public Space? ; 12. Conclusions. The Future of Citizenship