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Citizenship after the nation state, regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe, edited by Ailsa Henderson, Charlie Jeffery and Daniel Wincott

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Citizenship after the nation state

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edited by Ailsa Henderson, Charlie Jeffery and Daniel Wincott

Comparative territorial politics series

regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe

An outstanding cast of contributors led by Charlie Jeffery, Ailsa Henderson and Daniel Wincott, confront the idea of 'methodological nationalism', that is the uncritical choice of the 'nation-state' as a unit of analysis that dominates postwar social science. It looks within the state to a regional-scale unit of analysis. Using specially collected data from 14 regions across five European states Citizenship After the Nation State explores how citizens define and pursue collective goals at regional scale as well as at the scale of the 'nation-state'. It shows that regional institutions, actors and processes have transformed the state, in many ways 'de-nationalizing' it, and recasting it as a more complex form of political organisation, one that needs to respond to the demands of distinctive regional political communities as well as the political community as organized at the state-level. What comes 'after the nation-state' is, in other words, not the regional disintegration of the state or the emergence of a 'Europe of the Regions', but rather the consolidation of multi-levelled statehood --, Provided by Publisher

1. Introduction: Regional Public Attitudes Beyond Methodological Nationalism; C.Jeffery 2. Citizenship After Devolution in the United Kingdom: Public Attitudes in Scotland and Wales; A.Henderson, C.Jeffery, D.Wincott and R.W.Jones 3. A Comparative study of Citizenship in Three Spanish Autonomous Communities; C.Galais, E.Martinez-Herrera and F.Pallarés 4. Regional Citizenship in Germany: Solidarity and Participation in a Unitary Federal State; J.Oberhofer, D.Roth, J.Stehlin, R.Sturm and F.Wille 5. Public Attitudes to National and Regional Citizenship in a Unitary Federal State: The Case of Austria; F.Fallend, P.A.Ulram and E.Zugmeister 6. Regional Citizenship and Scales of Governance in France; R.Pasquier 7. Multi-level Citizenship in Europe: A Comparative Examination of the Rescaling of Political Life; A.Henderson 8. Conclusions: Citizenship After the Nation State- The 2009 Survey and Beyond; D.Wincott and R.W.Jones