The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union : Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space (Paperback)

Part I. Electoral rights in legal and political context: 1. Introduction - Electoral rights and the boundaries of the suffrage; 2. Political membership in and beyond the state; 3. Electoral rights for non-nationals: theoretical, legal and political accounts; Part II. The Past, Present and Future of EU Electoral Rights: 4. The emerging constitutional framework for electoral rights in the era of European citizenship; 5. EU electoral rights since 1993; 6. Electoral Rights for Union Citizens: looking to the future; 7. Electoral rights for third country nationals: what role for the European Union?; Part III. The Contestation of Electoral Rights in the Member States of the European Union: 8. National politics of immigrant inclusion: the extension of electoral rights to resident non-nationals; 9. Electoral exclusion, models of citizenship and the contestation of belonging; 10. Out of empire: electoral rights, enlargement and the wider Europe; Part IV. Conclusions: 11. Conclusions - citizenship and electoral rights in the multi-level 'Euro-polity'.