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
Daniel Béland is a Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the
University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He has been a visiting scholar
at Harvard University and The University of Chicago, a Fulbright
Scholar at The George Washington University, and a Public Policy
Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A political sociologist
analyzing politics and public policy from a comparative and
historical perspective, he has published four books (Une
sécurité libérale? 2001 Social Security: History and Politics from
the New Deal to the Privatization Debate 2005, States of Global
Insecurity 2007 and Social Security: A Documentary History [with
Larry DeWitt and Edward D.
Berkowitz]) and more than three dozen articles in journals. André
Lecours (Ph.D. Carleton, 2001) is Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His
primary research interests are nationalism, with an area
specialization on Western Europe, and institutionalism theory. He
is the author of Basque Nationalism published by the University of
Nevada Press in 2007 and the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory
and Analysis published by
the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Professor Lecours'
articles on nationalism, regionalism, identity politics,
paradiplomacy, new institutionalism and Spanish and Belgian
politics have appeared in a number of journals.
A thoughtful discussion of some of the key moments in the rise of the respective nationalist movements...an important and welcome contribution to the debate that is ongoing in this field. Gerry Mooney, Journal of Social Policy This work is historically gripping; it opens door for researchers and policy makers ... Beland and Lecours take the reader through a historical yet pragmatic journey that is punctuated with logical and sequential arguments. George Christopher Braithwaite, Political Studies Review well argued and exhaustively researched Allan Craigie, Regional & Federal Studies
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