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Citizenship after Nation State

Purpose of the Meeting

• Preparation of ‘definitive’ collective

publication

• Discuss first drafts
• Agree approach for final drafts
• Further (final?) meeting in the spring

• Discuss wider dissemination strategy

• Country team obligations
• Individual, collaborative work

• CANS II?

The intellectual challenge

• The problem of ‘nationalised’ scholarship

• But now under challenge
• Work on elections, parties, interest groups, public

policy, constitutional politics now attuned to re-

scaled/multi-scaled practice of politics

• Challenge more resonant in some places than others
• Our focus on citizens

‘Citizenship’

• TH Marshall
  • Particular conception of citizenship
  • But highly influential in
    • UK, Germany
    • Comparative welfare state literature
    • Comparative territorial politics literature
• Assumption that political and social rights conceived, realised at ‘national’ (=statewide) scale - Much evidence to the contrary: regionalisation (and Europeanisation) - How do citizens conceive of, pursue - Political rights (= political participation) - Social rights (= risk-sharing, solidarity)

Our approach(es)

• Country-based analyses
  • No attempt (yet) to carry out analysis to a standard template
  • Different ways of operationalising variables
  • Different analytical techniques; individual-level analysis
  • [All: engage with past traditions of national scholarship, earlier datasets]
  • [We may want to look at some level of standardisation of approach]
• Comparative analysis
  • Descriptive (as in my Florence paper)
  • Regional-level statistical analysis (Ailsa tomorrow)

Publication

• Where to publish?
  • Special issue of journal
  • Book in appropriate series
  • Other?
• Other CANS publications
  • Protocol
    • CANS members free to work across merged dataset
    • Individual or collaborative
    • Acknowledgement (reference to funders and website)
    • Link to publications from website
      • Introduction (CJ+)
      • Comparative context (CJ Florence paper)
      • Austria
      • France
      • Germany
      • Spain
      • UK
      • Comparative, regional-level analysis (AH+)
      • Conclusions

Our Publication

• Contents
  • Introduction (including comparative context - Florence paper?)
  • Austria
  • France
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • UK
  • Comparative, regional-level analysis/es
  • Conclusions
    • Timescale
      • CJ to secure book contract (Palgrave-Macmillan?)
      • Near final drafts to agreed template before our next meeting
      • Meet to discuss late Jan/early Feb
      • Final revisions by end February
      • Submission of final manuscript by mid-April
      • Publication late 2010/early 2011

Our Publication

• Introduction
  1. Why we did CANS: the intellectual challenge
  2. Our research design
     • ‘Citizenship’
     • Theoretical framework: dependent and independent variables
     • Case selection
     • Questionnaire design and field work
     • Operationalising the variables Identifying here the variables we use for individual and regional-level analysis
  3. Descriptive inter-regional comparison (using variables specified under 2.)

Comparative Analysis

• Selected variables!!

• Ailsa’s paper as starting point – need

comments

• Agree approach to analysis/presentation

• Testing hypotheses at regional level
• Identifying/explaining region clusters