Seminar series The support for (de-)democratising voting-rights reforms among pro-democratic Europeans Global Citizenship Seminar Series Add to calendar 2023-03-16 12:00 2023-03-16 13:00 Europe/Rome The support for (de-)democratising voting-rights reforms among pro-democratic Europeans Sala Triaria Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 16 2023 12:00 - 13:00 CET Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies GGP: Global Governance Programme GlobalCit: Global Citzenship Observatory This seminar will host a presentation by Jonas Hultin Rosenberg and Johan Wejryd The prevailing trend of treating voting-rights as a privilege for citizens has been challenged by a lively debate among democratic theorists. Growing numbers of resident non-citizens and non-resident citizens are likely to make voting-rights regulations more politically salient. Yet, these issues are largely missing in studies of public opinion and little is known about the support for the citizenship-principle and its more or less democratic alternatives. Informed by normative democratic theory, this article adds to this research field by conducting a comprehensive study of attitudes toward competing requirements for voting-rights, using a conjoint experiment on nationally representative samples of citizens of five European countries. The results indicate that considerable proportions of respondents support the residency-requirement defended by most democratic theorists. However, an equally large (or larger) proportion of the respondents supports a democratically dubious economic contribution-requirement, restricting voting-rights to taxpayers only. The support for this de-democratising voting-rights reform is unexpectedly strong also among respondents that indicates a general support for democracy measured by conventional measure of pro-democratic attitudes. Partners