Inequalities, Territorial Politics, Nationalism

Auteur

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).

Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen `and General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze Politico-Sociali in Florence, head of the 'Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Institute of Advanced Studies', President of the Società Italiana di Economia and Co-chief Editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Texte du rabat

This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms. It was originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.

Contenu

Introduction: Inequalities, territorial politics, nationalism 1. Beyond the nation-state: territory, solidarity and welfare in a multiscalar Europe 2. New perspectives on old inequalities: Italy's north-south divide 3. Inequality and voting in Italy's regions 4. A bourgeois story? The class basis of Catalan independentism 5. Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK 6. The Process of Rescaling Interests in the Belgian Context: The Impact of Regional Governmental Strength