SWISSCIT index on citizenship law in Swiss cantons : conceptualisation, measurement, aggregation
Jean-Thomas Arrighi De Casanova & Lorenzo Piccoli
| Résumé |
In the Swiss federal context, the acquisition of citizenship through
ordinary naturalization, the enjoyment of electoral rights as a
foreign resident, and the retention of the franchise as a Swiss
citizen abroad is not uniformly defined through a single federal
law but co-determined by the cantons. In this explanatory note, we
introduce SWISSCIT, a set of indicators measuring how inclusive
cantonal citizenship policies are through a systematic comparison
of the legislation in force as of 31 December 2017 in the 26
cantons. The dataset comprises three separate aggregated
indicators, measuring the legislation on 1) ordinary naturalization
of foreign residents; 2) the right to vote and stand as candidate of
foreign residents in local and cantonal elections; and 3) the right
to vote and stand as candidate of Swiss citizens abroad in their
municipality and canton of origin. The note successively discusses
issues of conceptualization, measurement and aggregation. By making
our methodology fully transparent, we follow what has become common
practice in index-building and hope to encourage users to make use
of our data in their own research. |
| Mots-clés |
Switzerland, citizenship, naturalisation, cantons, voting rights, migration |
| Citation | Arrighi de Casanova, J. T., & Piccoli, L. (2018). SWISSCIT index on citizenship law in Swiss cantons : conceptualisation, measurement, aggregation. Université de Neuchâtel. |
| Type | Working paper (Anglais) |
| Année | 2018 |
| Département | Nccr on the move |
| Institution | Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel) |
| Nombre de pages | 22 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60507 |
| Liée au projet | The Regional Dynamics of Integration and Citizenship Regu... |