Dear List Members,
You may find this new book interesting:
Daniel Béland and André Lecours. 2008. Nationalism and Social Policy: The
Politics of Territorial Solidarity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199546848
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, 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.
The cases at the centre of this study are three multinational states, that is,
states featuring strong nationalist movements: Canada (Québec), 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, like Germany 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.
Contents
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
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Sincerely,
Daniel Béland
University of Saskatchewan
www.danielbeland.org
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