Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society

Bruno Frey

No 94, IEW - Working Papers from Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich

Abstract: States are ill equipped to meet the challenges of a globalized world. The concept of citizenship with its rights and obligations, including the allegiance owed, is too narrowly defined to exist only between individuals and a state. Today, people identify with, and pay allegiance to, many organizations beyond the state. This paper suggests that citizenship could be extended further and be possible between individuals and quasi-governmental organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations, such as churches, clubs, interest groups, functional organizations and profit firms. Due to the larger set of types of citizenship individuals could choose from, their preferences would be better fulfilled and, due to the competition for citizens induced among organizations, the efficiency of public activity would be raised.

Keywords: Citizenship; Public Goods; Political Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 H4 H7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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