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In Germany’s political discourse ‘regional citizenship’ is not a concept of overwhelming political relevance. This is perhaps surprising for a federal state which has all the formal preconditions for thriving subnational polities. One explanation for this has to do with the consequences of multi-level politics: citizens are confronted with alternatives of local, regional, national and European citizenship (Foradori, Piattoni and Scartezzini 2007) in Germany as elsewhere and may not prioritize any one over the others.
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© 2014 Julia Oberhofer, Dieter Roth, Julia Stehlin, Roland Sturm and Felix Wille
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Oberhofer, J., Roth, D., Stehlin, J., Sturm, R., Wille, F. (2014). Regional Citizenship in Germany: Solidarity and Participation in a Unitary Federal State. In: Henderson, A., Jeffery, C., Wincott, D. (eds) Citizenship after the Nation State. The Comparative Territorial Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314994_4
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