ABSTRACT
Many modern studies have established a correlation between work and civic participation. The presence of the key elements of citizenship—judgment, loyalty, autonomy, and not being a slave at the mercy of the power of the rulers—was thought to be closely related to ownership. Citizen action in the republic would become purely a means to ensure private property. From being a condition of citizenship, property would become its goal and point. The implementation of the social rights entailed in citizenship was increasingly criticized. If social security and social assistance are to serve citizenship, their actual procurement should be considered also with regard to its effects on the reproduction of citizenship. Conflicts about the organization of social security and assistance are also fought out now by means of conflicts about empirical and normative definitions of citizenship. Neorepublican citizenship requires actual political equality and political participation as well as a guarantee of access to equality and participation.
