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Citizenship Tests: A Comparative, Communitarian Perspective
Author(s) -
ETZIONI AMITAI
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2007.00864.x
Subject(s) - naturalisation , citizenship , scope (computer science) , authoritarianism , naturalization , politics , immigration , perspective (graphical) , political science , sociology , test (biology) , social science , political economy , law , democracy , alien , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language , paleontology , biology
The history, nature and scope of citizen naturalisation tests are briefly examined in this article, as well as their political and social applications. A comparison of tests from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany highlights the ways in which these tests are used as immigration controls rather than as a way to establish preparation for citizenship. The difference in the content of the tests also reveal alternative conceptions of citizenship including authoritarian, liberal and neo‐communitarian.