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The contributions to this special issue of Citizenship Studies generally understand citizenship as referring to a status of equal membership in bounded political communities. This introduction sketches three realignments of citizenship that challenge the common equation between the community of citizens and territorial populations of independent states. First, the imagined co-extensionality of state, nation and people is increasingly challenged by processes of migration and globalization. However, as proposed in Chwaszcza's contribution to this issue, the unity of the political people may still be needed as a necessary fiction in order to ensure the diachronic continuity of a democratic polity. Second, as discussed in Baubock's and Keating's contributions, the territorial boundaries of citizenship are no longer identical with those of states for two reasons. External citizens can claim status and rights from outside the territory and territorial devolution has created new spaces for sub-state models of social citizenship. De Witte's and Guiraudon's contributions, finally, discuss the tension between norms of equality derived from principles of citizenship and non-discrimination respectively. As we argue in this introduction, the European anti-discrimination legislation has produced complex realignments of the boundary between negative and positive conceptions of liberty and universal and particularistic norms of equality. 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.