Renegotiating Rights: Labour Regulation and the Enlargement of the European Union

The project was conducted with financial support of a British Academy Larger Research Grant.

In order to secure social cohesion and legitimacy it is crucial for every state to meet and to react to certain historically institutionalised expectations and demands of its citizens. However, in a world undergoing dramatic changes this task may become difficult. Borders become more and more permeable and states face diverse pressures from above and below. Will these changes hollow out the state in the long run, or, is there some way of moderate reform that could help the state persist as a strong pattern of societal organisation, even in post-national settings?

Outcomes

• Pfister, Thomas (2005). Review Essay: Citizenship and Globalisation. Ethnopolitics 4(1), 105-113.
• Pfister, Thomas (2012). The Activation of Citizenship in Europe - Europe in Change. Manchester: Manchester University Press (link).
• Wiener, Antje (2005): Citizenship in New Boundaries: On the Social Constitution of Political Order in Europe. In: Huget, Holger;
  Chryssoula Kambas and Wolfgang Klein (eds.) Border Crossings: Difference and Identity in Current Europe (pp. 221-263). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. [in German]
• Wiener, Antje (2007): Special Issue: Contested Meanings of Norms - The Challenge of Democratic Governance Beyond the State. Comparative European Politics, 5 (link).

Please find the Final Report here.