CIVIC REPUBLICANISM AND COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

This academic article had the objective to study civic republicanism and cosmopolitan citizenship by collecting information from academic documents, articles, textbooks related to citizenship issues, including related electronic media, and using concepts and theories to analyze. It was found that the concept of civic republicanism is often used as a theoretical starting point in criticizing the limitations of liberal democracy as a political ideology and it is less popular than liberalism, because of the victory of liberal democracy and politics in the parliamentary system. But the concept of republican citizenship also played an important role in political development as well as counterbalancing or balancing various forms of thinking that providing to stable democratic governance. Many conceptions of citizenship status may be appropriate for citizens in a particular society or in the context of the different society and the different citizenship characteristics may be defined differently by society. It makes the attractiveness of republican thought focuses on the principle that "citizens" must focus on the common good. The interests of specific groups must be subordinated to the interests of the public.