Synopses & Reviews
Territories of Citizenship explores citizenship transitions in light of increasedglobal interconnectedness, ethnic diversity, and migration. The focus of the book is two prone.The first part evaluates the ramifications of conventional citizenship within thetraditional physical and legal boundaries of the nation-state for the democracy of itsinhabitants. An important concern in the first part of the book is the effect on migration flowsand citizen mobility on citizenship. How should democracies view citizenship rights now thatsocieties increasingly include resident citizens, resident non-citizens, and naturalized citizens?And why is residence special for belonging to the political community? Chapters for this partof the book compare the duties of residents and citizens, ask why it matters for democraticdecision-making if its inhabitants have different forms of belonging to the politicalcommunity, and consider naturalization legislation from a normative democratic perspective.The chapters thus illustrate several democratic problems associated with traditional territorialcitizenship. Part two focuses on the potentials for new citizenship space and place beyond theterritorial confine of the nation-state. Its chapters concern the role of international institutionsand multilevel governance as guarantors of citizenship and both ask and answer questionsabout the prospect of empowering individuals and creating transnational public sphere andglobal solidarity in global governance.
Synopsis
A comprehensive exploration of theories of citizenship and inclusiveness in an age of globalization. The authors analyze democracy and the political community in a transnational context, using new critical, conceptual and normative perspectives on the borders, territories and political agents of the state.
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The current economic crisis is causing large impact on the behavior of financial markets and institutions. Crisis, Risk and Stability in Modern Banking presents an indepth insight into key topics related to the behavior of financial institutions in the crisis, stressing areas of major research interest. It covers a selection of papers from the past European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at the University of Valencia, Spain in September 2011.This book analyses different subjects ranging from the analysis of the behavior of rating agencies, bank performance in the crisis, banking regulation and its impact on bank management, the implications of bank stability on economic growth, the impact of globalization on financial stability, or the importance of stock exchange mergers, as well as other diverse areas such as microinsurance and social lending.
About the Author
LUDVIG BECKMAN Associate Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is the author of The Frontiers of Democracy: The Right to Vote and its Limits (2009) and the author of several articles on democratic theory, political theory and bioethics in journals such as Democratization, Citizenship Studies, Ratio Juris, Environmental Politics, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
EVA ERMAN Associate Professor of Political Theory at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the author of Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions (2005), and the author and co-editor of Legitimacy Beyond the State? Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors (2010). She has published articles on communicative action, moral conflict and discourse ethics in journals such as Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and Philosophy and Social Criticism, as well as on democracy, human rights and global governance in journals such as Review of International Studies and Ethics and International Affairs. Moreover, she is the founder and chief editor of the international peer-review journal Ethics and Global Politics.
Table of Contents
Citizens and Resident Aliens
Is Residence Special?
Naturalisation, Desert and the Symbolic Meaning of Citizenship
'Democratic Agents' and 'Agents of Democracy' in Multilayered Governance
The Practical Conditions of Sovereignty of the People
The Limits of Post-Territorial Political Community
Making Global Governance Public
Initial Citizenship and Rectificatory Secessions