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Article: Citizenship and gender division in the Swiss direct democracy: from structures to political action.
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- West European Politics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Studies of citizenship conventionally insist on the multidimensional character of this concept. However, there is less agreement on how the linkages between the different dimensions of citizenship should be understood. In his famous 1949 study on Class, Citizenship and Social Development, Marshall thus distinguishes between the civil, political and social aspects of citizenship in modern democracies. The civil dimension concerns legal, individual rights, like freedom of speech and religion, or the right to work. The political dimension of citizenship refers to the right to participate in the exercise of political power, for instance through voting. The social aspects of ...