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The intersection of governance and citizenship in Canada

30 Aug 2006

This paper explores how each of these factors has contributed to a dis- tinctive Canadian path in governance and citizenship, and it argues for ways to improve the relationship between the state and the voluntary sector so that the relationship is more suited to the contemporary challenges of governing. [...] A citizenship regime embodies four key dimensions: the mix of responsibilities between the state, the market and com- munity; the rights and responsibilities of citizens; access to the political power that facilitates the development and protection of these rights and responsibilities; and a sense of identity or belonging that results from how one is treated as a member of the political community [...] The third role is as a means of representing the identities and interests of citizens and of pressing their claims to the state. [...] A Closer Look at Governance At the core of shared governance is a relationship between the state and civil soci- ety, restructured in ways that shape and reinforce the identities, rights and responsibilities of citizenship and that fundamentally affect the degree of access to the state. [...] Interdependent but autonomous actors To say that the nongovernmental actors (leaders of voluntary organiza- tions, representatives of networks and communities, and individual citizens) involved in governance are relatively independent of government is simply to reaffirm the very definition of civil society as constituting the “space of uncoerced human association and the set of relational networks
accountability government education politics democracy governance civil society science and technology canada charities culture government policy law citizenship political participation autonomy social sciences public-private partnership community further education society charitable organization forms of government charitable purposes

Authors

Phillips, Susan D

Pages
36
Published in
Canada

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