European Citizenship Practice: Building Institutions Of A Non-state

by Antje Wiener

Overview

Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership or belonging. The European Union poses the most recent and dramatic change to this definition of citizenship. Arguing that citizenship mu

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367315573
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Antje Wiener is assistant professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hannover, Germany.

Table of Contents

PART ONE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY, 1 Citizenship in a Non-State, 2 Contextualized Citizenship, 3 A Socio-Historical Institutionalist Approach, PART TWO PARIS, 4 Agenda-Setting Towards Political Union, 5 Special Rights, 6 Passport Union, PART THREE FONTAINEBLEAU, 7 Market Making and Union Building in the 1980s, 8 Special Rights Policy, 9 Passport Policy, PART FOUR MAASTRICHT, 10 A Space Without Frontiers?- Border Politics, 11 Dusting Off the Citizenship Acquis, 12 Fragmented Citizenship Practice Post-Maastricht

Editorial Reviews

Develops a concept of citizenship practice that takes the continually changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership into account and examines the process of policy making and political participation which contributes to creating the terms of citizenship. Draws on both comparative social-historical literature on the state and the new historical institutionalism in European integration theories. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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