European Citizenship Practice: Building Institutions Of A Non-state

by Wiener,Antje

• ISBN13: 9780813336893
• ISBN10: 0813336899
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership or belonging. The European Union poses the most recent and dramatic change to this definition of citizenship. Arguing that citizenship must be explored from a perspective that takes this continual change into account, Antje Wiener develops the concept of citizenship practicethe process of policymaking and/or political participation which contributes to creating the terms of citizenship. The approach draws on both comparative social-historical literature on the state and the new historical institutionalism in European integration theories."European" Citizenship Practiceadvances a discursive analysis of citizenship practice based on these related bodies of literature, which lie at the heart of this important contribution to citizenship studies.

Author Biography

Antje Wiener is assistant professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hannover, Germany.

Table of Contents

Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY	1	(60)
Citizenship in a Non-State	3	(18)
The Paradox	3	(3)
The Argument	6	(2)
The Methodology	8	(2)
The Case	10	(2)
The Broader Perspective	12	(1)
Organization and Research Design	13	(2)
Notes	15	(6)
Contextualized Citizenship	21	(15)
Contextualized Citizenship: Constitutional and Historical Elements	21	(6)
Citizenship as a State Building Component: Borders and Belonging	27	(4)
Notes	31	(5)
A Socio-Historical Institutionalist Approach	36	(25)
The Organs of the Euro-Polity	37	(5)
From Moving Picture to Contingent Practice	42	(5)
Expanding the Acquis Communautaire	47	(6)
Notes	53	(8)
PART TWO PARIS	61	(64)
Agenda-Setting Towards Political Union	65	(19)
Towards a New Policy Paradigm	65	(8)
Expanding the Acquis Communautaire: New Policy Objectives	73	(7)
Notes	80	(4)
Special Rights	84	(22)
Sorting the Resources	85	(4)
Discussing Ideas: The Florence Round Table on Special Rights	89	(6)
Expanding the Acquis Step-by-Step: The Routinization of Informal Resources	95	(5)
Notes	100	(6)
Passport Union	106	(19)
Sorting the Resources	106	(3)
Discussing Practices and Procedures	109	(5)
Borders and Free Movement of Workers	114	(5)
Conclusion: The Paris Acquis Communautaire	119	(3)
Notes	122	(3)
PART THREE FONTAINEBLEAU	125	(86)
Market Making and Union Building in the 1980s	128	(34)
Setting the Stage	129	(1)
Sorting the Resources	130	(9)
Reforming the Institutions	139	(5)
The Intergovernmental Conference	144	(4)
The Single European Act	148	(3)
Conclusion	151	(2)
Notes	153	(9)
Special Rights Policy	162	(22)
The Political Right to Vote	163	(3)
Pragmatic Approach---The Commission	166	(3)
Progressive Yet Divided---Parliament	169	(7)
The Social Charter	176	(3)
Conclusion	179	(1)
Notes	180	(4)
Passport Policy	184	(27)
Border Politics: Towards the Schengen Accord	185	(6)
New Boundaries - Belonging Through Participation	191	(4)
Towards Other Frontiers of Citizenship	195	(6)
Conclusion: Market Making and Polity Formation	201	(5)
Notes	206	(5)
PART FOUR MAASTRICHT	211	(96)
A Space Without Frontiers?-Border Politics	215	(37)
A Changed Geopolitical Context and a New Policy Paradigm	215	(8)
Sorting the Issues; Borders, Belonging and Security	223	(5)
Fragmenting Border Politics	228	(4)
New Frontiers of Transparency and Democracy	232	(7)
Conclusion: Integration Despite Fragmentation	239	(5)
Notes	244	(8)
Dusting Off the Citizenship Acquis	252	(28)
Triggering Debate over Citizenship	253	(4)
Mobilizing Resources	257	(6)
Acquiring a Place in the Community Discourse	263	(6)
Writing Citizenship into the Treaty	269	(6)
Notes	275	(5)
Fragmented Citizenship Practice Post-Maastricht	280	(27)
Formal Grounds: The Political Right to Vote	281	(5)
Meaning: Who Belongs?	286	(4)
Entering a New Cycle of Citizenship Practice	290	(3)
A New Geography of Citizenship	293	(5)
Conclusion: Fragmented Rights, Access, Belonging	298	(3)
Notes	301	(6)
References	307	(22)
Appendix	329	(6)
Index	335