ABSTRACT
There are two broad conceptions of citizenship which we can look towards. On the one hand we have the ancient, republican tradition of citizenship, and on the other, the modern, liberal understanding of the citizen (Touraine, 1997, pp. 77-89). Michael Ignatieff sketches the distinction:
The one defends a political, the other an economic definition of man, the one an active – participatory – conception of freedom, the other a passive – acquisitive – definition of freedom; the one speaks of society as a polis ; the other of society as a market-based association of competitive individuals.
