Citizenship After the Nation State Regionalism, Nationalism and Public Attitudes in Europe

by Henderson, Ailsa; Jeffery, Charlie; Wincott, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780230296572
• ISBN10: 0230296572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An outstanding cast of contributors led by Charlie Jeffery, Ailsa Henderson and Daniel Wincott, confront the idea of 'methodological nationalism', that is the uncritical choice of the 'nation-state' as a unit of analysis that dominates postwar social science. It looks within the state to a regional-scale unit of analysis. Using specially collected data from 14 regions across five European states Citizenship After the Nation State explores how citizens define and pursue collective goals at regional scale as well as at the scale of the 'nation-state'. It shows that regional institutions, actors and processes have transformed the state, in many ways 'de-nationalizing' it, and recasting it as a more complex form of political organisation, one that needs to respond to the demands of distinctive regional political communities as well as the political community as organized at the state-level. What comes 'after the nation-state' is, in other words, not the regional disintegration of the state or the emergence of a 'Europe of the Regions', but rather the consolidation of multi-levelled statehood.

Author Biography

Ailsa Henderson is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK. From 2008 to 2012 she held a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to conduct research on the constituent political cultures of Europe.

Charlie Jeffery is Professor of Politics and Vice Principal for Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He directed the Economic and Social Research Council's research programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change from 2000 to 2007.

Daniel Wincott is Blackwell Law and Society Chair at Cardiff Law School, UK. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Society and was editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


1. Introduction: Regional Public Attitudes Beyond Methodological Nationalism; Charlie Jeffery

2. Citizenship After Devolution in the United Kingdom: Public Attitudes in Scotland and Wales; Ailsa Henderson, Charlie Jeffery, Daniel Wincott and Richard Wyn Jones

3. A Comparative study of Citizenship in Three Spanish Autonomous Communities; Carol Galais, Enric Martinez-Herrera and Francesc Pallarés

4. Regional Citizenship in Germany: Solidarity and Participation in a Unitary Federal State; Julia Oberhofer, Dieter Roth, Julia Stehlin, Roland Sturm and Felix Wille

5. Public Attitudes to National and Regional Citizenship in a Unitary Federal State: The case of Austria
Franz Fallend, Peter A. Ulram and Eva Zugmeister

6. Regional Citizenship and Scales of Governance in France; Romain Pasquier

7. Multi-level Citizenship in Europe: A Comparative Examination of the Rescaling of Political Life; Ailsa Henderson

8. Conclusions: Citizenship After the Nation State- The 2009 Survey and Beyond; Daniel Wincott and Richard Wyn Jones