Citizenship after the Nation-State

Brussels Meeting12-13 November 2009

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?

This Session

• Two things1. Sketch out themes of introduction to

collective publication– The intellectual challenge

– Our solution

– Our approach

2. Issues around the merged dataset

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 version of the challenge

• Particular circumstances likely to foster regionalisation (as suggested elsewhere in ‘challenge’ literature)– Strong sub-state territorial identity– Powerful regional institutions– Wide regional economic disparities

• Test through standard questionnaire fielded across a sufficient range of cases

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

Next Steps

• Meeting again– Heidelberg (?), end Jan/early Feb

• To finalise collective publication

• To plan comparative analysis

– Somewhere else, before end of June• To discuss comparative analyses

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

• Introduction1. Why we did CANS: the intellectual challenge2. 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.)

Country Chapter Template

1. Contexts: history, institutions, identity, economy

2. Traditions of scholarship (including earlier, related datasets)

3. Our selected variables• Any problematic issues

in this country

• Any additional variables used to explore country-specific themes

4. Steps in analysis• Descriptive univariate

analysis

• Cross-tabs

• Bivariate correlation

• Multivariate analysis

5. Conclusion: a regionalised citizenship?

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