Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Introduction......Page 21
A history of the concept of citizenship......Page 25
Contemporary debates about citizenship......Page 32
The theory of citizenship......Page 38
An outline of the book......Page 42
Part I Understanding Citizenship......Page 47
The Citizen Audit......Page 49
Citizenship: an overall framework......Page 51
Personal identity and trust......Page 54
Institutional trust......Page 57
Tolerance of others......Page 58
Pride in British citizenship and democracy......Page 59
Government responsiveness......Page 63
Civic duties and obligations......Page 68
Civic rights......Page 74
Civic attitudes: a summary......Page 76
Variations in levels of citizenship......Page 77
Conclusions......Page 95
Repertoires of political behaviour......Page 96
Variations in political participation......Page 105
Political knowledge, interest and discussions......Page 109
Repertoires of    organisational participation......Page 116
Characteristics of the organisational participants......Page 123
Conclusions......Page 127
4 Civic Behaviour and Citizenship: Micro Politics......Page 130
The extent of political engagement......Page 133
Conclusions......Page 146
Part II Modelling Citizenship......Page 147
5 Alternative Theories of Citizenship......Page 149
Measuring citizenship......Page 150
Theories of citizenship......Page 157
Cognitive engagement theory......Page 158
The general incentives theory......Page 160
The civic voluntarism model......Page 164
The equity fairness theory......Page 167
The social capital model......Page 169
Conclusions......Page 171
The cognitive engagement model......Page 172
The general incentives model......Page 176
The civic voluntarism model......Page 182
The equity fairness model......Page 186
The social capital model......Page 188
Estimating the rival models......Page 191
Testing rival models......Page 199
Discussion and conclusions......Page 204
Part III The Consequences of Citizenship......Page 207
Citizenship and government......Page 209
Stage 1: measuring the geography of citizenship......Page 214
The effects of citizenship: service outputs......Page 229
The effects of citizenship: service outcomes......Page 233
Conclusions......Page 242
8 The Dynamics of Citizenship......Page 244
The dynamics of civic attitudes......Page 246
The dynamics of civic behaviour......Page 251
Explaining the changes in civic attitudes and behaviour......Page 256
The results......Page 263
Conclusions......Page 280
What does citizenship mean......Page 282
Change in citizenship over time......Page 291
The atomised citizen......Page 295
Strengthening citizenship in the future......Page 300
Appendices......Page 305
Selection of individuals......Page 307
Response rates......Page 308
1. Face-to-face questionnaire  (Wave 1)......Page 309
2. Mail-back questionnaire......Page 342
3. Face-to-face questionnaire  (Wave 2)......Page 343
Bibliography......Page 344
Index......Page 354