ARTICLES Guest-edited Symposium on Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective: Introduction to the Symposium Dietlind Stolle and Marc Morjé Howard 1 A Cross-National Comparison of the Internal Effects of Participation in Voluntary Organizations Marc Morjé Howard and Leah Gilbert 12 Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States Jack Citrin and John Sides 33 When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions Dietlind Stolle, Stuart Soroka and Richard Johnston 57 Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation Russell J. Dalton 76 Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Social Capital and Race in British Neighbourhoods Natalia Letki 99 Pre-emptive Democracy: Oligarchic Tendencies in Deliberative Democracy Aviezer Tucker 127 A Lockean Theory of Territory Cara Nine 148 Jamaican Dons, Italian Godfathers and the Chances of a ‘Reversible Destiny’ Hume N. Johnson and Joseph L. Soeters 166 Does Political Information Matter? An Experimental Test Relating to Party Positions on Europe James Tilley and Christopher Wlezien 192 POLITICAL STUDIES Volume 56 Number 1 March 2008