Description
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, challenging the ability of political institutions to ensure integration and cohesion. Changes in the scale of politics have emerged; local and regional governments have engaged in redistributive politics in opposition to ‘austerity’ at state and European levels.
The chapters in this book investigate these interactions with an interdisciplinary perspective. This edited volume explores the political framing, economic drivers and social dynamics of recent transformations in the territorial bases of politics.
Inequalities, Territorial Politics, Nationalism will be of great relevance to advanced students and researchers in the fields of comparative politics, international relations, comparative federalism, and public policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.
Table of Contents
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
