Title:Enfoques y metodologías en las ciencias sociales : una perspectiva pluralista
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KEATING, MichaelDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Este es un nuevo y revolucionario manual que ofrece a profesores y estudiantes de ciclos superiores los principales enfoques y metodologías de investigación en el campo de las ciencias sociales. Escrito por un destacado ...
Title:In Defence of Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:There are five levels in social inquiry: ontology; epistemology; approaches; methodology; and methods, which we see as means of gathering information. There is no determinate relationship such that one school will consistently ...
Title:Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; WILSON, AlexDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Edinburgh Europa Paper SeriesAbstract:The reform of regional government has been a key element in efforts to reform the Italian state. The aims are administrative modernization; national integration; coherent regional development; fiscal responsibility and ...
Title:In difesa del pluralismo. Conclusione: pluralismo sì ma ‘ragionevole’
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article aims at conceptualizing methodological pluralism, at different levels. The social sciences have been racked by arguments about ontology, epistemology, approaches, methods and methodology. There is a tendency ...
Title:Social citizenship, solidarity and welfare in regionalized and plurinational states
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The social welfare literature has often assumed the existence of a unified, territorial nation-state. This would provide the basis for solidarity and social citizenship, while mobilizing the resources for redistribution. ...
Title:The Independence of Scotland: Self-government and the Shifting Politics of Union
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:After three hundred years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland ...
Title:Scottish Independence
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:Article
Title:Rescaling Europe
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The European nation-state as an ideal-type was a polity bounded by fixed borders, which enclosed an economy, a society, a system of representation and a demos. Normatively, it was supported as essential to democracy and ...
Title:Putting European political science back together again
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Political science is the product of modernity and the nation-state. A dominant tradition within it has striven for a positivistic and universal form of understanding, based on the individual actor. Developments in recent ...
Title:Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A pluralist perspective
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A revolutionary new textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course ...
Title:Noul Regionalism în Europa Occidentală
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:(Translation of 'The New Regionalism in Western Europe', 1998)
Title:Territorial policy communities and devolution in the UK
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; CAIRNEY, Paul; HEPBURN, EveDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Devolution in the UK forms part of a wider process of spatial rescaling across Europe. Little
work has been done on its effect on interest articulation. The literature on policy communities
treats them as sectoral in ...
Title:A Quarter Century of the Europe of the Regions
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Over a period of twenty-five years, we have witnessed the waxing and waning of the idea of a 'Europe of the Regions'. These concluding remarks begin by examining the factors that fuelled interest in, and enthusiasm for, ...