The ethos of democracy: Mapping and discussing the theories of the motivational sources for demanding democratic citizenship.

Deliberative and republican models of democratic citizenship are motivationally demanding. They need to direct citizens deliberation from private to common interests. This project discusses a set of theories of the motivational sources for democratic citizenship. 1) A national vs political identity models (David Millers, Andrew Mason, Cécile Laborde and others); 2) The practices of the common school (Elizabeth Anderson and others); 3) The practices of civil society and the public sphere (Rainer Forst, Arato/Cohen, Jürgen Habermas); 4) Experiences of structural cooperation (Axel Honneth, Émile Durkheim, John Dewey, Jürgen Habermas;