Civic Virtues Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism [Paperback]

The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend it warmly. --Mind
Dagger's book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of citizenship through its clear demonstration that state promotion of civic virtue is compatible with individual autonomy. --Political Studies

The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend it warmly. --Mind

The arguments in this book, both interpretive and analytical, are consistently careful, modest, astute, and helpful. The version of liberalism inCivic Virtuesis certainly an attractive one, and it very effectively makes the point that the virtues of citizenship must be an abiding theme for all students of political philosophy, those who follow Rawls as much as those who follow Rousseau. --American Political Science Review

...an important work given the growing interest in active citizenship....Dagger's book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of citizenship through its clear demonstration that state promotion of civic virtue is compatible with individual autonomy. --Political Studies Dagger's book deserves to be read by all those who are interested in enlarging the boundaries of liberalism in the direction of a more communitarian politics. --The Responsive Community

Dagger's important new book...will repay the attention of both republican and liberal thinkers who share Dagger's avid desire to conceive of the polity as a cooperative practice governed by the principles of fair play as it pursues common goods. [It] will have a particular appeal to thinkers who share his equally avid desire to put theory to the service of political and moral practice. --Ethics