Introduction to the symposium: intentional citizenship and citizens’ remedial obligation to share the compensation burden

ABSTRACT

In this introduction, I provide a brief overview of the main arguments defended by Avia Pasternak in her book, ‘Responsible Citizens, Non-Responsible States’ and summarise the critics she will confront from four political and legal theorists who work in the area of individual citizens’ responsibility for state wrongdoings.

KEYWORDS:

• Avia Pasternak
• intentional citizenship
• distributive effect
• state wrongdoings
• forward-looking responsibility

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Jinyu Sun

Jinyu Sun is an Associate Researcher at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University. Her research interests include collective action, political obligation, and responsibility for injustice.