Date: 2015
Type: Article
Morphing the Demos into the right shape : normative principles for enfranchising resident aliens and expatriate citizens
Democratization, 2015, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 820-839
BAUBÖCK, Rainer, Morphing the Demos into the right shape : normative principles for enfranchising resident aliens and expatriate citizens, Democratization, 2015, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 820-839
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In this article I criticize, first, democratic inclusion principles that are indeterminate with regard to democratic boundaries and indifferent towards the structural features of polities. I suggest that a democratic stakeholder principle passes these critical tests and can be applied to democratic polities of different kinds. Second, I compare birthright-based and residence-based membership regimes at state and local levels and consider how they can accommodate international migrants. Third, I argue that these two regimes are not freestanding alternatives between which democratic polities have to choose, but are combined in a multilevel architecture of democratic citizenship, in which the inclusion and exclusion dynamics of birthright and residence mutually constrain each other and every individual is included as a citizen in both types of polities.
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Published online: 11 Feb 2015
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/34709
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.988146
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