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Alien Suffrage in the European Union

Alien Suffrage in the European Union Jo Shaw This article focuses on the electoral rights which were intro19 is linked to the fact that constitutional amendments were duced for EU citizens as part of the Maastricht package in 1993 needed in several Member States to ensure implementation of by what was originally Article 8b of the EC Treaty--now Article the electoral rights provisions (unlike most of the rest of the "cit19 (Connolly, 2001; Day and Shaw, 2000, 2002; Shaw, 2003; izenship package"). O'Leary cautioned that "the importance of Connolly, Day and Shaw, 2003). These cover the right to vote these amendments of national conceptions of sovereignty, what and stand in local and European parliamentary elections for it entails and who can exercise it, should not be underestimated" European citizens who are resident in Member States other than (O'Leary, 1996: 265). the one of which they hold citizenship. It represents a modified D'Oliveira (1994: 139) pointed explicitly to the radical power case of alien suffrage--that is the liberal principle which holds of Article 19(1) EC in commenting upon the absence of a clear that states ought to ensure that long term resident non-nationals link between local electoral rights and citizenship at the Union have rights http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

Alien Suffrage in the European Union

The Good Society , Volume 12 (2) – Jul 20, 2004

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Penn State University Press
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Abstract

Jo Shaw This article focuses on the electoral rights which were intro19 is linked to the fact that constitutional amendments were duced for EU citizens as part of the Maastricht package in 1993 needed in several Member States to ensure implementation of by what was originally Article 8b of the EC Treaty--now Article the electoral rights provisions (unlike most of the rest of the "cit19 (Connolly, 2001; Day and Shaw, 2000, 2002; Shaw, 2003; izenship package"). O'Leary cautioned that "the importance of Connolly, Day and Shaw, 2003). These cover the right to vote these amendments of national conceptions of sovereignty, what and stand in local and European parliamentary elections for it entails and who can exercise it, should not be underestimated" European citizens who are resident in Member States other than (O'Leary, 1996: 265). the one of which they hold citizenship. It represents a modified D'Oliveira (1994: 139) pointed explicitly to the radical power case of alien suffrage--that is the liberal principle which holds of Article 19(1) EC in commenting upon the absence of a clear that states ought to ensure that long term resident non-nationals link between local electoral rights and citizenship at the Union have rights

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The Good SocietyPenn State University Press

Published: Jul 20, 2004

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