Employing a variety of theoretical frameworks and sociological orientations, the contributors explore the creation of public boundaries, along with changes in the rules defining citizenship roles, identities, and rights.

Constituting Citizens: Rights and Rules, Connie L. McNeely * World Polity: Global Processes and TransnationalEffectsState and Society in a World Unbound, DavidJacobson * Dynamics of Citizenship Development and the Political Incorporation of Women: A Global Institutionalization Research Agenda, Francisco O.Ramirez and John W. Meyer * Women's Alternative Path to Citizenship: An Examination of Global Employment Policy, Nitza Berkovitch * Citizenship in the Curriculum: Globalization of Civics Education in Anglophone Africa, 1955-1995, Mary Rauner * State and Citizenship under Transformation in Western Europe, Lars BoKaspersenNational Policy: Rights, Resources, AndIdentities * Rights, Relationality, and Membership: Rethinking the Making and Meaning of Citizenship, Margaret R. Somers * Classificatory Logics of State Welfare Systems: Towards a Formal Analysis, John Mohr * Gendering the Analysis of Welfare States (with examples from Australia and the U.S.), Ann Orloff * Collective Identities, Women's Agency, and the Framing of Citizenship, Barbara Hobson * Substantiating a Worker's Right to Compensation, T. Ryken Grattet * Citizenship and Rights: Worker Protection in Germany and the United States, Dula J. Espinosa * Contested Citizenship: Dynamics of Racial Identity and Social Movements, AnthonyW. Marx * ConclusionRights and Rules: Constituting World Citizens, John Boli