Expanding the Electorate: Comparing the Noncitizen Voting Practices of 25 Democracies

Earnest, David C.

doi:10.1007/s12134-014-0334-8

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“…For example, the enfranchisement of European migrants through 1997's Amsterdam Treaty establishes a system of preferential treatment, which only considers country of origin and ignores tenure and other investments in the receiving country. These and other rules that govern migrant electoral participation have led to the establishment of diverse regimes of inclusion, exclusion, and discrimination (Earnest 2014;Shaw 2006). Second, a main argument regards migrant rights to self-determination.…”

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Does Social Capital Affect Immigrant Political Participation? Lessons from a Small-N Study of Migrant Political Participation in Rome

Long¹

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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Social capital captures the idea that relationships hold value. While this idea has intuitive appeal, there is significant debate regarding its utility to political science research. This article employs original data collected in Rome, Italy, to test a new model that recognizes the distinction between levels of social capital and introduces the idea of conflict between these levels into the field's current theorizing on immigrant political participation. The findings presented here lend further support for the proposed relationship between migration-related factors, such as language proficiency and length of stay and participation. The article's main finding is that the interactions between group-level and individual-level social capital plays an important role in shaping participation. Specifically, because it reinforces group-level social capital, bonding social capital favors participation in the formal, institutionally sanctioned activity of voting, while bridging social capital-which mitigates the effect of group-level social capital-favors participation in the informal political activity, protest.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Does Social Capital Affect Immigrant Political Participation? Lessons from a Small-N Study of Migrant Political Participation in Rome

Long¹

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…New data collection projects are documenting how contemporary democracies vary in the extent, level, and restrictions around non-citizen suffrage (Schmid, Piccoli, and Arrighi 2019). This has inspired numerous quantitative studies that analyze the effects of different models of citizenship, judicial institutions, welfare state generosity, partisanship, interpersonal trust, and the diffusion of international norms, on the likelihood that a country will grant more comprehensive voting rights to non-citizens (Earnest 2008(Earnest , 2014(Earnest , 2015Toral 2015;Justwan 2015;Arrighi and Rainer 2017). Similarly, several case studies have produced rich descriptions of initiatives for suffrage expansions (Hammar 1977;Jacobs 1998;Andres 2013;Hayduk 2012;Teney and Jacobs 2016), while other comparative studies have treated this question as part of broader trends in integration policies (Soysal 1994;Joppke 1998;Koopmans et al 2005).…”

Section: Empirical Research On the Enfranchisement Of Non-citizensmentioning

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Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)

Goenaga

2019

Citizenship Studies

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Through a discourse analysis of French and Swedish legislative debates from 1968 to 2017, this article examines how actors challenge and reinforce dominant ideas about the link between nationality and political rights. We argue that the broader political culture influences which discursive strategiesor 'frames'are more likely to structure parliamentary debates in different national contexts. However, our analysis also shows that legislators sometimes develop new discursive frames in which they reinterpret dominant norms to make them consistent with their views. Through this incremental process of reinterpretation and reformulation of dominant ideas, debates over noncitizen voting rights have chipped away at the link between nationality and political rights. Our findings suggest that initiatives to enfranchise non-citizens trigger lower levels of conflict when they can be framed as a policy tool for immigrant integration rather than as a matter of popular sovereignty.

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“…Während das ‚Recht, Rechte zu haben' bei der Mehrheitsbevölkerung im Staatsbürgerstatus und in der Verfassung fest verankert ist, würden die politischen Rechte der Nicht-Staatsbür-ger am seidenen Faden ausländerrechtlicher Regelungen und behördlicher Einzelfallentscheidungen hängen. Dass die Länder, die ein irgendwie geartetes Ausländerwahlrecht eingeführt haben, empirisch mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit ebenfalls ein eher inklusives Staatsbürgerschaftsrecht aufweisen (Earnest 2015), mag dieses Problem entschärfen, kann es demokratietheoretisch aber nicht ausräumen.…”

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“…Sievering 1981;Däubler 1988), in den letzten Jahren wurde er in der Migrations-und Staatsbürgerschaftsforschung aber neu lanciert (Rubio-Marin 1998;Bauböck 2005;Beckman 2006;Song 2009;Munro 2008;Owen 2011;Pedroza 2015;Lenard 2015). Auch die vergleichende Forschung hat vermehrt herausgearbeitet, dass ein Ausländerwahlrecht unterhalb der nationalen Ebene nicht mehr als exotischer Sonderfall gelten kann (Earnest 2008(Earnest , 2015Hayduk 2015;Seidle 2015). 2 Mit dem Verhältnis von Staatsbürgerschaft und Wahlrecht beschäftigt sich seit längerem auch die Rechtswissenschaft (Quaritsch 1983;Beaud 1992;Rodríguez 2010;Finck 2015).…”

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Wählen ohne Staatsbürgerschaft? Das Ausländerwahlrecht in der demokratietheoretischen Diskussion

Dormal¹

2016

PVS

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In the face of growing migration, the idea that voting rights should be independent of formal citizenship has become more and more attractive. However, critics object that the dissociation of political rights from formal membership in the polity undermines the foundations of democracy. This article examines the theoretical assumptions underpinning both views. While supporters of alien suffrage rely on liberal conceptions of equality and representation, critics draw on republican understandings of politics. The article concludes by sketching a third perspective, described as conflictive republicanism, which tries to reconcile the republican idea that political rights should not unnecessarily be dissociated from political membership with the liberal concern for heterogeneous interests and broad inclusion.

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Expanding the Electorate: Comparing the Noncitizen Voting Practices of 25 Democracies

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

Does Social Capital Affect Immigrant Political Participation? Lessons from a Small-N Study of Migrant Political Participation in Rome

Does Social Capital Affect Immigrant Political Participation? Lessons from a Small-N Study of Migrant Political Participation in Rome

Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)

Wählen ohne Staatsbürgerschaft? Das Ausländerwahlrecht in der demokratietheoretischen Diskussion

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