Introduction: Antecedents and Consequences of European Citizenship

This book is not an edited collection of interconnected but intrinsically separate essays. Rather, it is a cohesive piece of research that should read as a unified study both in terms of the way we have built and tested our hypotheses, and in the way concepts are measured and models developed. The first chapter defines the book's core substantive focus and presents the main theoretical arguments that are explored in the rest of the volume.