Goodman earns APSA book prize
Goodman earns APSA book prize
- October 8, 2015
- Honor recognizes best book in European politics and society
Sara Wallace Goodman, UCI political science associate professor, is the co-recipient
of the 2015 Best Book Award from the European Politics & Society section of the American
Political Science Association. The honor recognizes her book, Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe, published last year, as the best in its field. She also received an honorable mention
for the title from the Migration and Citizenship section.
The book explores why some Western European states have enacted cultural requirements
as conditions for citizenship and permanent residence, including language proficiency,
country knowledge and value commitments. While states have adopted similar, immigrant-directed
policies, she finds they are part of strategies to address “different problems of
membership, defined by inherited citizenship policy legacy and extant political preferences
of the party in power.” In tracing membership policymaking in six European nation-states,
she concludes national citizenship and identity are strengthened despite countervailing
pressures of globalization and supranationalism.
Goodman joined the UCI faculty in fall 2009 following a six month post doctoral fellowship
at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She completed her Ph.D. in government
at Georgetown University and specializes in the study of institutions of democratic
inclusion in Western Europe.
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