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Designing the model European—Liberal and republican concepts of citizenship in Europe in the 1860s: The Association Internationale pour le Progrès des Sciences Sociales
Authors:Christian Mü  ller
Affiliation:a Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Ages”, Johannisstrasse 1-4, D-48143 Münster, Germany
b Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Visiting Post-Doc Fellow (2007-2008)
Abstract:The formation of citizenship as a concept to define the rights of participation in the formation processes of modern territorial states is well known. But the transnational dimensions of defining citizenship and how to combine national legislations with enlightened universal and natural law rules in the mid-19th century is not very well known. The article aims to explore the transnational discourses on the political, economic and moral rights and duties of the citizen in the pan—European liberal Association Internationale pour le Progrès des Sciences Sociales. During the 1860s, its congresses should serve as a vast commission of enquiry and should eventually lead to a general definition of citizenship in Europe which could be implemented in national legislations. The article shows how the Association Internationale tried to deduce universal moral rules from national legislations and peculiarities by the means of moral or positive social science. In combining moral unity with national and regional diversities, the Association Internationale tried to give an elastic framework for a European civil society in which national subjects should become active citizens.
Keywords:Citizenship   Transnational   International Congresses   Liberalism   Republicanism   Social science   Experts   Peace Movements   Association Internationale pour le Progrè  s des Sciences Sociales
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