Voting Rights for Resident Aliens:
A Comparison of 25 Democracies
David C. Earnest
Department of Political Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC
November 7, 2003
This paper is prepared for delivery at the 2003 annual meeting of the
Northeast Political Science Association and the International Studies
Association-Northeast. Copyright by the International Studies
Association-Northeast.
I would like to thank Martha Finnemore, James N. Rosenau, Susan Sell
and Erik Voeten for their helpful comments on previous drafts of
portions of this paper. I also thank Ragne Beiming, Andreas Carlgren,
Brita Cronquist, Christoph Meran, Carlos Orga, Claes Thorson, and Tomas
Udden for patiently responding to my many questions about their
respective states’ policies and practices.