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Expansive Citizenship—Voting beyond Territory and Membership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2005

Rainer Bauböck
Rainer Bauböck
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Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Voting rights have traditionally been regarded as the core of democratic citizenship. While T. H. Marshall (1965) described citizenship as a bundle of civil, political, and social rights, political philosophers from Aristotle via Rousseau to Michael Walzer have understood citizenship to be essentially a status of full membership in a self-governing polity. This republican conception explains the central place of electoral rights: citizens are those who participate in collective self-government either directly or through voting for representatives and running as candidates for elective public office.Special thanks to Harald Waldrauch from whose ongoing research on the rights and legal statuses of migrants this essay has greatly benefited.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 683 - 687
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© 2005 The American Political Science Association

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