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- Title
Wer gehört zum Volk? Eine Rekonstruktion der Unionsbürgerschaft im Lichte gegenwärtiger Boundary-Debatten.
- Authors
Schäfferle, Eva-Maria
- Abstract
‘Who belongs to the people?’ is a question that confronts modern democratic theory with a dilemma: Restricting the freedom of both citizens and non-citizens, a country’s migration and membership law, to claim democratic legitimacy, cannot be determined by citizens alone. Reconstructing EU citizenship, this article develops a transnational answer to the boundary problem. Contrary to models of national and global citizenship, EU citizenship shows a way of opening domestic migration and membership policies to non-citizens’ influence without undermining the continued existence of bounded political communities. It grants EU citizens not only additional rights that they can claim in other member states, but also the power to co-determine these rights via their representatives in the Council and the European Parliament. To develop this democratic potential further, the article advocates a dual process of democratization, which opens EU citizenship both internally by strengthening EU citizens’ influence in EU decision-making and externally by widening the group of member states.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Parliament; CITIZENS; WORLD citizenship; MOBILITY of law; LEGITIMACY of governments; POLITICAL community; DILEMMA; ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p261
- ISSN
1869-3016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/zpth.v13i1-2.14