Search results

In countries open for emigration & immigration, large numbers of citizens live outside the state territory & large numbers of non-citizens reside permanently in this territory. In many democracies, both groups will be excluded from democratic participation & representation. Yet more & more states revise their conceptions of citizenship to grant voting rights & political participation to non-citizen residents or non-resident citizens. This poses a considerable challenge to democratic theory. Under certain conceptions only one of these groups, but not the other has a claim to inclusion. Starting from a comparative examination of political participation rights, my contribution will discuss some arguments for & against expanding political citizenship beyond territory & formal nationality. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

The dust of Methodenstreit still not been settled, plus there is still no consensus on which methodology is most appropriate to investigate society and politics. This article stems from a discussion of research methodology and socio-political rules of thumb, the Ignacio Lago, Donatella della Porta and Rainer Baubock, organized by Camil Ungureanu and the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. From different perspectives and sometimes conflicting, the authors of this paper discuss the relationship between quantitative and qualitative research and the role of political theory in the investigation of the socio-political. Adapted from the source document.