The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union

Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

• 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'.

'This book is a magisterial and monumental treatment of the author's chosen topic. … almost impossible to do justice to the richness of this book. What it reveals is that what people think about the idea and practice of citizenship varies both widely and subtly within individual Member States across time (and according to their different histories) and simultaneously, across Member States as they respond in their own ways to migration, immigration, globalisation, international law and in the case of the new Member States, struggle with the processes of democratisation. … the reader is constantly helped through the complexity of the material by regular summaries of what has been said, and why, and signposts to what is coming. … it is a must for the same range of scholars as the range and depth of scholarship that is brought to bear by its author.' European Foreign Affairs Review