STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Over the last decades we have witnessed the proliferation of problems in most European and North-American democracies involving issues of citizenship. Some of these problems, like the patterns and degrees of citizen’s participation in politics and related issues of civic education, seem perennial and even intrinsic to modern democracies. Others, like the causes and consequences of migration, including questions of integrating immigrants into existing nation-states, have become more urgent and complex due to economic and cultural trends toward globalization and growing international interdependencies. |
Our project of coordinating and presenting these materials will not favor any one political orientation, and will adhere to the high standards of scholarship prevailing in the area of citizenship research today. |