Research project CitPolDev - Citizenship and Political Development: Membership Contestation and Liberal Norms around the World Access to citizenship and electoral rights are crucial for how democracies work in practice. Yet the relation between citizenship boundary-setting and democratic government remains understudied. This multiannual research project focuses on the relation between political development and citizenship law inclusiveness. Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email This project has received funding via the EUI Research Council call 2021 and 2022. Linkages between citizenship boundary-setting, franchise expansion and the development of political institutions are understudied. This is remarkable because by defining the demos, citizenship and electoral laws both reflect and determine democratic inclusiveness. The CitPolDev project is a springboard for a new research agenda on the three-way relation between citizenship laws, non-resident voting rights and regime characteristics. The theoretical focus is on processes of norm diffusion and electoral engineering. We develop global longitudinal datasets that allow us to analyse the political regime correlates of key trends in citizenship and electoral laws, as well as their interaction, since the 1960s. The team Group members Rainer Baubock Visiting Fellow Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies View Rainer Baubock profile View profile View profile View profile Lucas Van Der Baaren Visiting Fellow Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies View Lucas Van Der Baaren profile View profile Eleanor Knott Assistant Professor London School of Economics (LSE) View Szabolcs Pogonyi Associate Professor Central European University (CEU) View Publications Evaluating special representation of non-resident citizens: eligibility, constituency and proportionality Read more Evaluating special representation of non-resident citizens: eligibility, constituency and proportionality Going global: opportunities and challenges for the development of a comparative research agenda on citizenship policies at the global level Read more Going global: opportunities and challenges for the development of a comparative research agenda on citizenship policies at the global level Citizenship and Migration Read more Citizenship and Migration Mobility without membership : do we need special passports for vulnerable groups? This working paper compiles contributions to a GLOBALCIT Forum debate launched by forum co-editors Jelena Džankić and Rainer Bauböck with a proposal to institute an exceptional mobility regime for vulnerable groups. Read more Mobility without membership : do we need special passports for vulnerable groups? Modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship around the world : comparative typology and main patterns in 2020 This Working Paper introduces the new GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset, by discussing the systematised comparative typology of modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship in the new Dataset and describing the main patterns observed around the world in 2020. Read more Modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship around the world : comparative typology and main patterns in 2020 GLOBALCIT citizenship law dataset This Dataset includes information on the different ways in which citizenship can be acquired and lost across the world. Read more GLOBALCIT citizenship law dataset External Partners Switzerland Geneva Graduate Institute – Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement (IHEID) Visit website https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/ Hungary, Austria Central European University (CEU) Visit website https://www.ceu.edu/ United Kingdom London School of Economics (LSE) Visit website https://www.lse.ac.uk/