Social Citizenship and Its Fetters

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Some liberal theorists in Great Britain and the United States have followed T. H. Marshall in defending welfare state practices with a rhetoric of social citizenship. They argue that social rights have enhanced freedom, promoted equality, ensured political stability and created a common civilization for members of these polities. Yet welfare state practices have also rendered the discourse of social citizenship ironic by engendering a number of opposite results: restrictions on freedom as citizens are subject to bureaucratic and market disciplines, perpetuation of inequality, and fostering of political instability through creating alienation. Liberal discourse on social citizenship thus promotes conservative results and reinforces the power of market and state in ways that keep the citizen a subject.

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