The dramatic changes that have occurred in modern nation-states have engendered a renewed and increasing interest in issues of citizenship and rights. The original essays in this collection describe the formation and transformation of citizenship and rights, considering issues such as legal culture, sovereignty, jurisdiction, diversity, welfare, and related state norms, structures, practices, and resources. Employing a variety of theoretical frameworks and sociological orientations, the contributors explore the creation of public boundaries, along with changes in the rules defining citizenship roles, identities, and rights.

Connie L. McNeely

Constituting Citizens: Rights and Rules, Connie L. McNeely * World Polity: Global Processes and TransnationalEffectsState and Society in a World Unbound, DavidJacobson * Dynamics of Citizenship Development and the Political Incorporation of Women: A Global Institutionalization Research Agenda, Francisco O.Ramirez and John W. Meyer * Women's Alternative Path to Citizenship: An Examination of Global Employment Policy, Nitza Berkovitch * Citizenship in the Curriculum: Globalization of Civics Education in Anglophone Africa, 1955-1995, Mary Rauner * State and Citizenship under Transformation in Western Europe, Lars BoKaspersenNational Policy: Rights, Resources, AndIdentities * Rights, Relationality, and Membership: Rethinking the Making and Meaning of Citizenship, Margaret R. Somers * Classificatory Logics of State Welfare Systems: Towards a Formal Analysis, John Mohr * Gendering the Analysis of Welfare States (with examples from Australia and the U.S.), Ann Orloff * Collective Identities, Women's Agency, and the Framing of Citizenship, Barbara Hobson * Substantiating a Worker's Right to Compensation, T. Ryken Grattet * Citizenship and Rights: Worker Protection in Germany and the United States, Dula J. Espinosa * Contested Citizenship: Dynamics of Racial Identity and Social Movements, AnthonyW. Marx * ConclusionRights and Rules: Constituting World Citizens, John Boli