R. Bellamy & D. Castiglione 
Making European Citizens 
Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context

Making European Citizens examines the forms of transnational citizenship developing in Europe. Active citizenship involves more than simply voting. Achieving mobilization at a transnational level may involve new democratic techniques and skills. The volume explores how far European citizens have acquired the requisite methods and qualities.

Table of Content

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: From National to Transnational Citizenship; R.Bellamy, D.Castiglione & J.Shaw PART I: CITIZENS’ DEMOCRATIC STANDING AND RIGHTS OF PARTICIPATION The Contested Case of EU Voting Rights; A.Connolly, S.Day & J.Shaw EU Citizenship and the Principle of Affectedness; C.Hilson We the Citizens? Representation and Participation in EU Constitutional Politics; D.Castiglione PART II: CITIZENS’ VOICE AND INTERESTS Transitional Political Parties; S.Day & J.Shaw Making Citizens from the Market? NGOs and the Representation of Interests; A.Warleigh Legitimising EU Regulation: Procedural Accountability, Participation, or Better Consultation?; I.Bartle PART III: CITIZENS’ MOBILIZATION AND OPPORTUNITIES Lesson Learning and the ‘Civil Society of Interests’; N.Pérez-Sólorzano Borrogán Local Mobilisation and Supranational Standards; C.F.Stychin Local Strategies for Civic Inclusion in a European Context: The Roma in the Czech Republic; M.Castle-Kanerova & B.Jordan PART IV: DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN A DEMOCRATIC EUROPE? Civic Competence and Identity in the European Polity; D.N.Chryssochoou Between Past and Future: The Democratic Limits of EU Citizenship; R.Bellamy Index

About the author

IAN BARTLE Research Officer in the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, University of Bath, UK DIMITRIS N. CHRYSSOCHOOU Associate Professor of International Organization, University of Crete, Greece MITA CASTLE-KANEROVA Independent Researcher, Prague ANTHEA CONNOLLY Independent Researcher, UK STEPHEN DAY Associate Professor of EU Political Economy, Oita University, Japan CHRIS HILSON Professor of Law, University of Reading, UK BILL JORDAN Professor of Social Policy, Exeter and Huddersfield Universities, UK NIEVES PÉRES-SÓLORZANO BORROGÁN Lecturer in Politics and Director for the Centre of Research in European Studies, University of East Anglia, UK CARL F. STYCHIN Professor of Law and Social Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Reading, UK ALEX WARLEIGH Professor of International Politics and Public Policy, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland