Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law

Citizenship, civil society and rule of law have been linked historically as pillars of the “constitutional state” and, more recently, as bases for “good governance” and remedies for ills as diverse as social and economic inequality, terrorism, anti-social behaviour and the crisis of representation. But they mean different things to different people, the relation between them is far from obvious, and it is unclear what if anything they offer, separately or together, to the contemporary world. The Centre brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider the meanings of citizenship, civil society and rule of law, to re-examine the links between them, and to identify their limits both in theory and in practice.

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