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Det svenska medborgarskapet bortom retoriken : en granskning av ett kommittédirektiv

Jansson, Jonna LU (2013) MRSG20 20122
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
This essay investigates whether or not a governmental directive from 2012 con-cerning the use of citizenship in achieving better integration and a more dynamic Sweden, can be said to express Jürgen Habermas ideas of ‘constitutional patriot-ism’. The essay also scrutinizes how and if the directive’s ambition is achievable through the methods and means described therein, more specifically, the para-doxical relationship between the particularistic citizenship and universal human rights. One important polemic is found in on the one hand, the directive’s pro-claimed goal of giving the citizenship a higher symbolical value (e.g. by ‘improv-ing’ inaugural ceremonies) with the hopes of thereby implementing democratic values and societal virtues in... (More)
This essay investigates whether or not a governmental directive from 2012 con-cerning the use of citizenship in achieving better integration and a more dynamic Sweden, can be said to express Jürgen Habermas ideas of ‘constitutional patriot-ism’. The essay also scrutinizes how and if the directive’s ambition is achievable through the methods and means described therein, more specifically, the para-doxical relationship between the particularistic citizenship and universal human rights. One important polemic is found in on the one hand, the directive’s pro-claimed goal of giving the citizenship a higher symbolical value (e.g. by ‘improv-ing’ inaugural ceremonies) with the hopes of thereby implementing democratic values and societal virtues in the citizen, and, on the other, academic studies which show that ‘symbolic involvement’ with the state does not result in a higher degree of interest concerning state affairs. The directive’s ambitions concerning national symbol and inaugural ceremonies are therefore judged to backfire. (Less)
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author
Jansson, Jonna LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSG20 20122
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
nationalism, Medborgarskap, konstitutionell patriotism, Human rights, symbolisk involvering, mänskliga rättigheter
language
Swedish
id
3358958
date added to LUP
2013-02-26 11:50:07
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:36
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  abstract     = {{This essay investigates whether or not a governmental directive from 2012 con-cerning the use of citizenship in achieving better integration and a more dynamic Sweden, can be said to express Jürgen Habermas ideas of ‘constitutional patriot-ism’. The essay also scrutinizes how and if the directive’s ambition is achievable through the methods and means described therein, more specifically, the para-doxical relationship between the particularistic citizenship and universal human rights. One important polemic is found in on the one hand, the directive’s pro-claimed goal of giving the citizenship a higher symbolical value (e.g. by ‘improv-ing’ inaugural ceremonies) with the hopes of thereby implementing democratic values and societal virtues in the citizen, and, on the other, academic studies which show that ‘symbolic involvement’ with the state does not result in a higher degree of interest concerning state affairs. The directive’s ambitions concerning national symbol and inaugural ceremonies are therefore judged to backfire.}},
  author       = {{Jansson, Jonna}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Det svenska medborgarskapet bortom retoriken : en granskning av ett kommittédirektiv}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}