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Borders, Boundaries, and Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2005

Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib
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Yale University
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Modern liberal democracies owe their stability and relative success to the coming together of two ideals which originate in distinct historical periods: the ideals of self-governance and territorially circumscribed nation-state. Self-governance defines freedom as the rule of law among a community of equals who are citizens of the polis and who have the right to rule and to be ruled. This ideal emerges in 5th-century Athens and is revived throughout history in episodes such as the experience of self-governing city-states in the Renaissance, the Paris commune of 1871, the anarchist and socialist communes of the Russian Revolution, and the Spanish Civil War.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 673 - 677
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© 2005 The American Political Science Association

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