Daniel Béland is a Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and The University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A political sociologist analyzing politics and public policy from a comparative and historical perspective, he has published four books (Une sécurité libérale? 2001 Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate 2005, States of Global Insecurity 2007 and Social Security: A Documentary History [with Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz]) and more than three dozen articles in journals.André Lecours (Ph.D. Carleton, 2001) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His primary research interests are nationalism, with an area specialization on Western Europe, and institutionalism theory. He is the author of Basque Nationalism published by the University of Nevada Press in 2007 and the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Professor Lecours' articles on nationalism, regionalism, identity politics, paradiplomacy, new institutionalism and Spanish and Belgian politics have appeared in a number of journals.

A thoughtful discussion of some of the key moments in the rise of the respective nationalist movements...an important and welcome contribution to the debate that is ongoing in this field. Gerry Mooney, Journal of Social Policy This work is historically gripping; it opens door for researchers and policy makers ... Beland and Lecours take the reader through a historical yet pragmatic journey that is punctuated with logical and sequential arguments. George Christopher Braithwaite, Political Studies Review well argued and exhaustively researched Allan Craigie, Regional & Federal Studies

• Introduction ; 1. Understanding the Nationalism-Social Policy Nexus ; 2. Canada: Nationalism, Federalism, and Social Policy ; 3. The United Kingdom: Nationalism, Devolution, and Social Policy ; 4. Belgium: Nationalism, State Reform, and the Federalisation Debate ; Conclusion

Daniel Béland is a Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and The University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A political sociologist analyzing politics and public policy from a comparative and historical perspective, he has published four books (Une sécurité libérale? 2001 Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate 2005, States of Global Insecurity 2007 and Social Security: A Documentary History [with Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz]) and more than three dozen articles in journals.André Lecours (Ph.D. Carleton, 2001) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His primary research interests are nationalism, with an area specialization on Western Europe, and institutionalism theory. He is the author of Basque Nationalism published by the University of Nevada Press in 2007 and the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Professor Lecours' articles on nationalism, regionalism, identity politics, paradiplomacy, new institutionalism and Spanish and Belgian politics have appeared in a number of journals.

A thoughtful discussion of some of the key moments in the rise of the respective nationalist movements...an important and welcome contribution to the debate that is ongoing in this field. Gerry Mooney, Journal of Social Policy This work is historically gripping; it opens door for researchers and policy makers ... Beland and Lecours take the reader through a historical yet pragmatic journey that is punctuated with logical and sequential arguments. George Christopher Braithwaite, Political Studies Review well argued and exhaustively researched Allan Craigie, Regional & Federal Studies

• Introduction ; 1. Understanding the Nationalism-Social Policy Nexus ; 2. Canada: Nationalism, Federalism, and Social Policy ; 3. The United Kingdom: Nationalism, Devolution, and Social Policy ; 4. Belgium: Nationalism, State Reform, and the Federalisation Debate ; Conclusion

Daniel Béland is a Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and The University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A political sociologist analyzing politics and public policy from a comparative and historical perspective, he has published four books (Une sécurité libérale? 2001 Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate 2005, States of Global Insecurity 2007 and Social Security: A Documentary History [with Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz]) and more than three dozen articles in journals.André Lecours (Ph.D. Carleton, 2001) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His primary research interests are nationalism, with an area specialization on Western Europe, and institutionalism theory. He is the author of Basque Nationalism published by the University of Nevada Press in 2007 and the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Professor Lecours' articles on nationalism, regionalism, identity politics, paradiplomacy, new institutionalism and Spanish and Belgian politics have appeared in a number of journals.

A thoughtful discussion of some of the key moments in the rise of the respective nationalist movements...an important and welcome contribution to the debate that is ongoing in this field. Gerry Mooney, Journal of Social Policy This work is historically gripping; it opens door for researchers and policy makers ... Beland and Lecours take the reader through a historical yet pragmatic journey that is punctuated with logical and sequential arguments. George Christopher Braithwaite, Political Studies Review well argued and exhaustively researched Allan Craigie, Regional & Federal Studies

• Introduction ; 1. Understanding the Nationalism-Social Policy Nexus ; 2. Canada: Nationalism, Federalism, and Social Policy ; 3. The United Kingdom: Nationalism, Devolution, and Social Policy ; 4. Belgium: Nationalism, State Reform, and the Federalisation Debate ; Conclusion