What are the attributes of "good citizenship?" How has this changed as neoliberal ideas have come to dominate public and political life? This book, based on extended ethnographic and multi-method research in a small town in Canada, examines the multiple ways that development proposal writing is intertwined with neoliberal citizenship. The authors argue that the citizens of Cobalt, Ontario, have become entrenched in a "proposal economy, " a system that empowers them to imagine, engage, and propose but not to count on the state to provide certain services. This book adds new perspectives on the ways that citizenship is produced and reproduced under conditions of neoliberalism.