Citizenship: The History of an Idea

Citizenship is the main axis of modern political legitimacy... But for all its evident centrality to modern politics, it would be quite wrong to assume that citizenship itself is well understood.

Paul Magnette is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po). He is the author, editor and co-editor of a dozen books, among which are Le souverain apprivoisé (2000) and What is the European Union? (2005).