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| Nationalism and the State |
| Welfare and Identity in Scotland and Quebec |
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Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism  Vol. 5 |
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| Year of Publication: 2006 |
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| Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. 212 pp., 16 tables and graphs |
| ISBN 978-90-5201-240-7 / US-ISBN 978-0-8204-6650-7 pb. |
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| Book synopsis |
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Since the mid-1970s, many developed states have reduced the size and scope of their welfare systems. At the same time, states have faced growing demands for self-government from national minorities. These twin processes have had a substantial impact upon the structure, power and legitimacy of the state, yet few have considered their inter-relationship.
This book aims to fill this gap by conducting a focused comparison of nationalism and welfare development in Scotland and Quebec. The recent emergence of Scottish and Québécois nationalism took place against a backdrop of welfare retrenchment. Did the post-war welfare state contain these territorial identities and strengthen attachment to the state among Scots and Quebecers? Did the retrenchment of state welfare lead to demands for greater self-government?
Demands for Scottish self-government led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament and the devolution of power over wide areas of social policy. The book examines the complexities of welfare development in multi-level states, drawing upon the Quebec-Canada experience to explore the relationship between nationalism and welfare development in post-devolution Scotland. |
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| Contents: The relationship between nationalism and the welfare state - State and minority nationalism in the UK and Canada - The emergence of nationalism in Scotland and Quebec - Social policy as a tool for accommodating national minorities - The territorial impact of welfare retrenchment - Social democracy and self-government - Scottish devolution and the British welfare state. |
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| About the author(s)/editor(s) |
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| The Author: Nicola McEwen is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2001. Her research on welfare state nationalism was developed while holding an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship in 2002-2003 and has come to fruition in this book. Nicola McEwen's main research interests are in comparative territorial politics, nationalism and UK devolution. |
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