The aspiration of this study is to fill the existing gap and to analyse the normative ideas the public have about what “a good citizen” is. However, these analyses have rarely explored-if at all-how citizens actually perceive citizenship, what they think characterizes “a good citizen”, what is important for good citizenship, whether citizens take greater pride in being citizens as members of a political community, or citizens as members of a nation. The “active citizen” has rightly been seen as an actor in the democratic public space, as a result of a change in the country’s political culture from the culture of subject to a culture of participation-as indicated in the classic categories by G. The sociological literature has focused on citizen participation and civil society. Not only do we have “disenchanted citizens”, but we research on citizenship also reflects an acceleration of the process of “disenchantment”. The very nature of citizenship points to the benefits of adopting a multidisciplinary approach to its study and the postdisciplinarity of its importance.
This is only a limited selection of the complex phenomenon, indicating the intersection of legal, philosophical, political, social and cultural perspectives. In subsequent years, sidestepping was in evidence-as the possibility of holding dual citizenship terminated. The immediate years that followed presented citizenship and citizens with a number of challenges-formally, Czechoslovak citizenship came to an end and a new citizenship was born, that of the independent Slovak Republic, which would “multiply” a couple of years later through acquisition of EU citizenship.
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The citizen “awakening” took the shape of mass protests with squares full of demonstrators and, a few months later, the historically highest voter turnout at the first free and fair parliamentary elections as well as the (re)acknowledgement of citizen rights and freedoms to the extent associated with standard democracies.
A powerful metaphor of November 1989 was the “disenchanted citizen”.
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