This paper presents a comparative analysis of OECD states. The comparison looks to how these states are mediating the meaning and role of citizenship to their respective citizenries. The finding suggests that OECD states present narrow and grandiose ideations of citizenship to their citizens. I discuss how this narrow theory and grandiosity makes ‘being citizen’ a more difficult project for selves than it perhaps used to be. The paper further discusses how the mediation of citizenship by the state stymies the inclusion of what Henrik Bang terms the ‘everyday makers’. I make the case for OECD states to include a wider theory of citizenship but also for a change in compulsory education to get selves thinking about their relationship with ‘being citizen’.
