Expatriate voting has gained in importance over the last decade in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article gives an empirical overview of existing regulations in all independent states of the continent and examines some explanatory approaches in the African context. One approach Read More …
The US Army announced it will expand its programme offering fast track access to citizenship for immigrants with special language or medical skills. The so-called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest programme “seeks to increase to 3,000 enlistments this fiscal Read More …
What explains the timing of the liberalization of citizenship laws? Although scholars have offered a number of competing explanations for differences among citizenship regimes, few have examined the timing of liberalization and retraction of rights for non-citizens. To investigate the Read More …
The article compares the institutional constraints that limit the potential electoral impact of external voting in national legislative elections in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It shows that the discrepancy between policy aims and outcomes can Read More …
Facilitated naturalisation for spouses of Swiss nationals used to be seen as the easy route to citizenship. However the integration assessment has become an onerous and intrusive procedure for some, with significant disparity in how the local authorities deal Read More …
Australian PM Tony Abbott has announced a push to toughen citizenship laws and tackle those inciting hatred in an attempt to target domestic extremists. Read the news report in BBC news and the commentary by Matthew Gibney in the Sidney Read More …
The number of EU citizens granted British citizenship has increased significantly over the past two years. Read the news report in the New Statesman.
Following the September 2014 Referendum on Independence where the minimum age for voting was lowered from 18 to 16, power is being transferred to Holyrood to legislate on this matter in future Scottish parliament elections. The House of Read More …
Naturalisation requirements around the world have generally become more consistent and streamlined over the years, but some idiosyncrasies have survived, says the Wall Street Journal. Read the article in the WSJ.
In this article, Rainer Bauböck criticizes, first, democratic inclusion principles that are indeterminate with regard to democratic boundaries and indifferent towards the structural features of polities. He suggests that a democratic stakeholder principle passes these critical tests and can be Read More …
