1st Edition

Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization

Edited By Daniele Caramani, Florian Grotz Copyright 2016
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses how the extension of voting rights beyond citizenship (i.e., to non-national immigrants) and residence (i.e., to expatriates) can be interpreted in the light of democratization processes in both Western countries and in developing regions. It does so by inserting the globalization-specific extension of voting rights to immigrants and expatriates within the long-term series of... Read more

1. Beyond citizenship and residence? Exploring the extension of voting rights in the age of globalization
Daniele Caramani and Florian Grotz

2. Morphing the Demos into the right shape. Normative principles for enfranchising resident aliens and expatriate citizens
Rainer Bauböck

3. The enfranchisement of citizens abroad: variations and explanations
Jean-Michel Lafleur

4. The enfranchisement of resident aliens: variations and explanations
David C. Earnest

5. "Keeping Pandora’s (ballot) box half-shut": a comparative inquiry into the institutional limits of external voting in EU Member States
Derek S. Hutcheson and Jean-Thomas Arrighi

6. Expatriates as voters? The new dynamics of external voting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Christof Hartmann

7. Immigrant enfranchisement in Latin America: From strongmen to universal citizenship
Cristina Escobar

Biography

Daniele Caramani is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich. His main theoretical contribution is in the field of the nationalisation of politics in Western Europe. Current projects − partly financed through SNF-NCCR grants − extend the analysis horizontally (in Central and Eastern Europe) and vertically (the formation of a supra-national party system in the European Union).

Florian Grotz is Professor of Comparative Government at the Institute of Political Science, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg. His main research interests include Government and Politics in Germany, Elections and Electoral Systems and Party Governments and Institutional Change.