{"id":18847,"date":"2017-08-22T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=18847"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:37:07","slug":"a-civic-studies-perspective-on-european-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=18847","title":{"rendered":"a civic studies perspective on European citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/23745118.2017.1363507\">A Civic Studies perspective on European citizens: in search for potential in the conflict surrounding TTIP<\/a>&#8221; (<span class=\"s1\"><i>European Politics and Society<\/i>, Aug 2017, pp. 1-27),<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aesop-youngacademics.net\/ya\/members\/profile\/nora-sophie-schroeder\">Nora Schr\u00f6der <\/a>provides a learned and insightful overview of Civic Studies&#8211;consistent with the core ideals of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/research\/civic-studies\">Summer Institutes of Civic Studies<\/a>&#8211;and applies it to the case of European grassroots protests against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TIPP).<\/p>\n<p>The anti-TIPP protesters hold a view of global trade and tariffs. They also hold related opinions of what citizenship should mean in the European Union context: they favor democratic control of markets and oppose neoliberalism as a political\/economic philosophy. As\u00a0Schr\u00f6der notes, public policy research would seek to clarify these issues, assess the impact of the protests, and perhaps provide advice to the activists. Civic Studies is different because it is explicitly normative (concerned with evaluating what is <em>right<\/em>) and because it aims to expand citizens&#8217; capacity to influence the world for the better. It doesn&#8217;t stop with assessing whether the protesters have influence and are on the right side of the issue; it strives to <em>increase<\/em> their influence for the good.\u00a0Schr\u00f6der argues that Civic Studies must therefore be &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; and closely related to practice, a case also made by Sanford Schram in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bttop.org\/sites\/default\/files\/public\/Civic%20Studies%20web.pdf\">this volume<\/a>\u00a0about Civic Studies. I admire such engaged research but <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16740\">believe<\/a> there&#8217;s also room for relatively abstract and general theory in Civic Studies&#8211;a point that Karol Soltan makes in the same volume. In any case,\u00a0Schr\u00f6der provides one of the best available summaries of Civic Studies, en route to offering some valuable thoughts about the anti-TIPP protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;A Civic Studies perspective on European citizens: in search for potential in the conflict surrounding TTIP&#8221; (European Politics and Society, Aug 2017, pp. 1-27),\u00a0Nora Schr\u00f6der provides a learned and insightful overview of Civic Studies&#8211;consistent with the core ideals of the\u00a0Summer Institutes of Civic Studies&#8211;and applies it to the case of European grassroots protests against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-democratic-reform-overseas","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}