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Extending political rights to citizens abroad: implications for the nation-state

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This paper inquires into the implications of extending the voting franchise to citizens living outside their national territory. It argues that the recent increase in the extension of political rights began as a restorative exercise for citizens regarded as disenfranchised for various reasons, and that this is in keeping with the classic expansion of rights within the traditional model of the democratic nation-state. This reinforces, rather than challenges, the principles of the sovereign state system. However, the paper then argues that citizens abroad have distinctive characteristics that complicate core conceptions of the nation-state: defining the scope of membership, signifying belonging, and negotiating rights and obligations. Because of this, the extension of the franchise does potentially add a transformative dimension to discussions about political community, national identity, and citizenship. Fieldwork in these three areas could constitute the core of an emerging research program into the possible transformational effects on the nation-state resulting from extending political rights to citizens abroad.

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Migration, external voting, expatriate voting, political rights, democracy, emigration, immigration, nationalism, nation-state, labor-exporting countries, political community
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Bach, Jonathan. "Extending political rights to citizens abroad: implications for the nation-state" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, Feb 15, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p311877_index.html>

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Bach, J. , 2009-02-15 "Extending political rights to citizens abroad: implications for the nation-state" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-11-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p311877_index.html

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Abstract: This paper inquires into the implications of extending the voting franchise to citizens living outside their national territory. It argues that the recent increase in the extension of political rights began as a restorative exercise for citizens regarded as disenfranchised for various reasons, and that this is in keeping with the classic expansion of rights within the traditional model of the democratic nation-state. This reinforces, rather than challenges, the principles of the sovereign state system. However, the paper then argues that citizens abroad have distinctive characteristics that complicate core conceptions of the nation-state: defining the scope of membership, signifying belonging, and negotiating rights and obligations. Because of this, the extension of the franchise does potentially add a transformative dimension to discussions about political community, national identity, and citizenship. Fieldwork in these three areas could constitute the core of an emerging research program into the possible transformational effects on the nation-state resulting from extending political rights to citizens abroad.

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Extending political rights to citizens abroad: implications for the nation-state Jonathan Bach Prepared for presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting New York NY February 15 2009 Please contact the author at bachj@newschool.edu for a complete copy of the paper. Abstract: This paper inquires into the implications of extending the voting franchise to citizens living outside their national territory. It argues that the recent increase in the extension of political rights began as a restorative exercise for citizens
the impact as Rainer Bauböck (2003:715-16) reminds us is primarily symbolic. Dual citizenship and extending voting rights does not challenge the principle of national territorial jurisdiction and the nation-state system but is rather its fully compatible product. Still as I will show in this paper extending the franchise does complicate core functions of the nation-state raising the prospect of transformative potential. The next part of the paper discusses the reasons for current salience of the topic and the last


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