Nationalism and social policy : the politics of territorial solidarity / Daniel Béland and André Lecours.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xiv, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199546855
- 0199546851
- Public welfare
- Sociology
- Nationalism
- Comparative Politics
- Social policy
- Autonomy and independence movements
- Separatist movements
- -- Political aspects -- Case studies
- -- Case studies
- Canada -- Social policy -- History
- Great Britain -- Social policy -- History
- Québec (Province) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- Scotland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- Flanders (Belgium) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- 320.540 22 BEL
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Originally published: 2008.
Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs such as the British NHS, but they have seldom examined this connection in reference to nationalism. Specialists of nationalism rarely mention social policy, focusing instead on language, culture, ethnicity, and religion. The main objective of this book is to explore the nature of the connection between nationalism and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. At the theoretical level, this analysis will shed new light on a more general issue: the relationships between identity formation, territorial politics, and social policy. Although this book refers to the experience of many different countries, the main cases are three multinational states, that is, states featuring strong nationalist movements: Canada (Quebec), the United Kingdom (Scotland), and Belgium (Flanders). The book looks at the interplay between nationalism and social policy at both the state and sub-state levels through a detailed comparison between these three cases. In its concluding chapter, the book brings in cases of mono-national states (i.e. France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States) to provide broader comparative insight on the meshing of nationalism and social policy. The original theoretical framework for this research is built using insight from selected scholarship on nationalism and on the welfare state
Introduction ; 1. Understanding the Nationalism-Social Policy Nexus ; 2. Canada: Nationalism, Federalism, and Social Policy ; 3. The United Kingdom: Nationalism, Devolution, and Social Policy ; 4. Belgium: Nationalism, State Reform, and the Federalisation Debate ; Conclusion
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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