The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Adding a Territorial Perspective to the Study of Welfare Politics: Theories, Hypotheses and Case Studies....Pages 5-35
Territorial Mobilisation and Left-Wing Partisanship: The Two (Parallel) Paths to Welfare Building in the Italian Regions....Pages 37-56
The (Re)emergence and Strengthening of the Centre-Periphery Cleavage in Italy: (Old and New) Regionalist Parties and Sub-state Welfare Building....Pages 57-82
The Italian Left: Between National Weakness and Regional Policy Experimentation....Pages 83-94
Spain: Finding a Balance Between Territorial Equality and Strong Regional Identities....Pages 95-113
Ethno-regionalist Parties in Spain: Linking Regional Welfare Governance to ‘Sub-state’ Nation-Building....Pages 115-134
The Spanish Left: Statewide Political Dominance and the Regional Challenge....Pages 135-148
Devolution, the Territorialisation of Party Politics and the Transformation of Welfare Governance in Great Britain....Pages 149-168
Scotland: Where Territorial Politics and Social Democracy Meet....Pages 169-188
Wales: Moderate Territorial Mobilisation in a Context of Social Democratic Consensus....Pages 189-204
Comparative Conclusions....Pages 205-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-259