TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bertocchi,Graziella
AU  - Strozzi,Chiara
TI  - The Evolution of citizenship: economic and institutional determinants
SN  - 00222186
AV  - HB73 JOU 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Censuses
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Civil law
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - International borders
KW  - International migration
KW  - Naturalization
KW  - Political migration
KW  - Stock shares
N2  - We investigate the evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective. We first present a median‐voter model of the determination of citizenship laws. Next we test the implications of the model on a new set of data on citizenship laws across countries. We show that citizenship laws respond to economic and institutional determinants endogenously. When facing increasing immigration, countries with a jus soli regime tend to restrict their legislation, whereas countries with a jus sanguinis regime resist innovation. The welfare burden does not prove to be an obstacle to jus soli legislation, but demographic stagnation encourages it. A high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of jus soli elements, whereas instability of state borders determined by decolonization impedes it. Religion and ethnic diversity have no residual effect
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/600080
ER  -