TY - JOUR
T1 - Class, Sector and Nation
T2 - Support for Minority Nationalism Among Peak Interest Groups in Four Western European Countries
AU - Keating, Michael
N1 - Acknowledgement
This paper is based on work undertaken within a Professorial Fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council between 2000 and 2003.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - The relationship between class and nationality has been a contentious one in the social sciences. Efforts to reduce one to the other have never succeeded. Rather, they interact in complex ways. In contemporary Europe, nationalist movements have revived in some wealthy regions, in what is sometimes seen as a ‘revolt of the rich’, an effort to promote territorial self-interest. If this were so, we would expect representatives of the main economic interests to support secession. A study of business and trade unions in Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Flanders and Lombardy, however, shows that both are cross-pressured. Nation-builders seek to build cross-class coalitions of support, but both business and trade unions retain strong ties to the existing states, producing different outcomes in each case.
AB - The relationship between class and nationality has been a contentious one in the social sciences. Efforts to reduce one to the other have never succeeded. Rather, they interact in complex ways. In contemporary Europe, nationalist movements have revived in some wealthy regions, in what is sometimes seen as a ‘revolt of the rich’, an effort to promote territorial self-interest. If this were so, we would expect representatives of the main economic interests to support secession. A study of business and trade unions in Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Flanders and Lombardy, however, shows that both are cross-pressured. Nation-builders seek to build cross-class coalitions of support, but both business and trade unions retain strong ties to the existing states, producing different outcomes in each case.
KW - Europe
KW - national identity
KW - nationalism
KW - new regionalism
KW - politics
U2 - 10.1080/21622671.2014.954605
DO - 10.1080/21622671.2014.954605
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 322
EP - 337
JO - Territory, Politics, Governance
JF - Territory, Politics, Governance
SN - 2162-2671
IS - 3
ER -