Anuario Filosófico, XXXVI/1 (2003) 39-52 39
PARTICIPACIÓN Y CIUDADANÍA
EN TIEMPOS DE GLOBALIZACIÓN
MANUEL BRAGA DA CRUZ
Social and political participation is a value and an essential
dimension of modern democracies.
But the decrease of this
participation...
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Anuario Filosófico, XXXVI/1 (2003) 39-52 39
PARTICIPACIÓN Y CIUDADANÍA
EN TIEMPOS DE GLOBALIZACIÓN
MANUEL BRAGA DA CRUZ
Social and political participation is a value and an essential
dimension of modern democracies.
But the decrease of this
participation in the most developed contemporary societies affects
their civic culture and the foundations of democratic legitimacy.
Citizenship, wich is the basis of modern concept of nation,
evolved from the early concept of civil liberty, at the beginning of
the 19th century, and from the notion of political equality, at the
end of the same century, to the later idea of social solidariety,
already in the 20th century.
This conception of citizenship has
been transleted, from the juridical point of view, into the notion of
nationality.
With the advent of post-industrial and post-materialistic societies,
and the spreading of globalization, social and cultural identities
are reformulated, citizenship becames transnational, and participation becam
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