http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200127-230249-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/45197/ Local Citizenship Needs Local Sovereignty Aleinikoff, Alexander eng 2020-01-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Local Citizenship Local Sovereignty Urban Citizenship Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 What goes underexplored in Bauböck’s commentary is the relationship of citizenship to sovereignty. Alexander Aleinikoff claims urban citizenship is a useful concept only to the extent that urban areas possess legal authority—some form of sovereignty—to rule by and for themselves.