Citizens Towards a Citizenship Culture

This is the eighth book of a series published with The Political Quarterly. The contributors ask how a radically more participative culture could be achieved, a citizenship culture - one where people think of themselves as citizens and act like citizens. The book is not concerned with short-term issues but tries to lift our eyes to middle and long-term proposals. Looking towards the middle years of the new century it offers a practical vision of a more democratic and genuinely inclusive society. As in the journal, a Political Quarterly book commissions expert contributors to write plainly for an intelligent general readership. Among the contributors are Joyce Macmillan on devolution, Michael Brunson on the media, Karen Evans on work and life, John Maxton on parliament, Matthew Taylor on party democracy, Neal Acherson on European citizenship, Yasmin-Alibhai Brown on multiculturalism and Anthony Everitt on arts and culture.

Sir Bernard Crick is Emeritus Professor of Birkbeck College, University of London.