1st Edition

Inequalities, Territorial Politics, Nationalism

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms. Since the 2008 financial crisis, European countries have faced economic stagnation, rising inequalities, worsening social conditions and strains on public services. These developments had major consequences on the political landscape,... Read more

Introduction: Inequalities, territorial politics, nationalism

Donatella della Porta, Michael Keating and Mario Pianta

1. Beyond the nation-state: territory, solidarity and welfare in a multiscalar Europe

Michael Keating

2. New perspectives on old inequalities: Italy’s north–south divide

Pier Francesco Asso

3. Inequality and voting in Italy’s regions

Francesco Bloise, Daniela Chironi and Mario Pianta

4. A bourgeois story? The class basis of Catalan independentism

Donatella della Porta and Martín Portos

5. Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK

Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny and Sean Kippin

6. The Process of Rescaling Interests in the Belgian Context: The Impact of Regional Governmental Strength

Nicolas Bouteca and Carl Devos

Biography

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.