Lineages of European citizenship : rights, belonging and participation in eleven nation-states / edited by Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione, and Emilio Santoro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellamy, Richard.

Castiglione, Dario.

Santoro, Emilio, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

European Union countries.

Political participation--European Union countries.

Political participation.

Citizenship--United States.

United States.

Political participation--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

The EU often refers to supposedly common European democratic and constitutional values when seeking to legitimize itself. A notable example of this tendency was the introduction of the status of EU citizenship for all member state nationals in the Treaty of Maastricht. Lineages of European Citizenship investigates how far citizenship can be treated as a shared European value and the degree to which EU citizenship draws on or departs from the national traditions of the member states. A distinguished team of international scholars offer a theoretical, comparative and historical analysis of the development of citizenship from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in ten European countries, the USA and the EU. They argue that although there are certain characteristic features of modern citizenship, they have evolved in very different ways in each of these states. As a result, there is no common pattern. Moreover, in certain crucial respects, the EU departs from the nation state model. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors that have conditioned these differences. The authors argue that citizenship must always be contextualized within the struggles of citizens and the relations between state and society that obtain at a particular time and in a given country.

Contents:

Introduction: The Making of Modern Citizenship / Richard Bellamy 1

1 Citizenship and the German Nation / Ulrich K. Preuss 22

2 Republican Citizenship and the Crisis of Integration in France / Cecile Laborde 46

3 Nationality, Rights and Virtue: Some Approaches to Citizenship in Great Britain / Jose Harris 73

4 Portuguese, but not Citizens: Restricted Citizenship in Contemporary Portugal / Rui Ramos 92

5 Italian Citizenship and the Republican Tradition / Luca Baccelli 113

6 Spanish Citizenship: Democracy-building and Plural Nationhood in the European Context / Carlos Closa 130

7 The Scandinavian Model of Citizenship and Feminist Debates / Birte Siim, Hege Skjeie 148

8 Citizenship and Cultural Difference in France and the Netherlands / Siep Stuurman 167

9 American Citizenship: Between Past and Present / Brunella Casalini 186

10 From National to European Citizenship: A Historical Comparison / Pietro Costa 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333986830

OCLC:

53887531