Transcript Virtues of citizen

Dr Maurice Mullard
Lecture 7
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Public and the Private commitment to
involvement keeping alive the idea of the
republic
Deliberate democracy voter centric to talk
centric
Persuade and listen
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The individual and the state – protect the
individual from politics
The safety of private lives
Rules and procedures
Minimalist state
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Market liberal virtue says social policy creates
a form of dependency and therefore a loss of
citizenship
Need to empower through market reforms
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Income inequality promotes loss of
citizenship concentration of power and elites
Need for promoting social citizenship
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Shares of income and GDP growth sharing the
fruits of prosperity
What has happened to wages household
incomes
UK gini coefficient 1970s and 2009
Explain growth in inequality
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Consumer society safety passive the role of
fear
Consumer society to be celebrated
Ills of society individual life styles
Surveillance society
Bliss and dark times