Constructing Citizens.

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      This essay arbitrates a dispute over the senses in which citizens are "constructed." The liberal-democratic view theorizes citizenship as a legal status guaranteeing political equality. It thereby ignores the extent to which conceptions of citizenship are variable social constructs. The governmental view insightfully characterizes the social origins of various conceptions of citizenship, but fails to account for citizens' unique capacities for collective self-government. Using the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as an example, I try to overcome these symmetrical shortcomings by showing how citizens can have reflexive abilities to construct the very bases of their own agency as citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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