Citizenship in a Migratory World Comparative Citizenship Research: Competing Accounts Explaining Convergence and Divergence National Parliaments as Deliberative Bodies Legislative Reforms of National Citizenship: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence in Germany, Hungary and Poland (1985-2007) Explaining Convergence and Divergence of National Citizenship Legislation: a Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates Toward Convergence: Horizontal Europeanization of National Citizenship Legislation Conclusions Appendix Bibliography

This book sheds light on the processes that have transformed national citizenship of the European Union's member states and explains the legislative changes that have taken place since the mid-1980s in Germany, Hungary and Poland.

ALEKSANDRA MAATSCH is Senior Researcher at the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.