Citizenship after the Nation-State? (CANS)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Roland Sturm
• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2008 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 59635702

- European nation-states still reflect post-World War II assumptions about a nationalisedcitizenship. By building evidence on the extent of rescaling of citizenship and any consequentincongruences of citizen understandings of community with the scale governmentalinstitutions and policy processes promises to open up new perspectives on the stability andefficacy of the institutions of national democracy.- Regional politics research has focused disproportionately on a small number of statelessnations and politically mobilised regions. By examining a wide range of regions from federal,asymmetrical and unitary states we will build a more even distribution of knowledge aboutthe importance of the region as a scale for political participation and social solidarity - In boththese respects we will open up not only new scholarly knowledge, but also insights of criticalinterest for governments and representative institutions about citizen expectations ofgovernment, and processes of legitimation, at regional and national scales - The project willgenerate a new and ground-breaking dataset which will enable for the first time systematiccross-national analysis of citizenship expectations and evaluations of different tiers ofgovernment within the state, and which will be a research asset of significance on a globalscale.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Participating Person: Professor Dr. Dieter Roth