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: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: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: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:Thirty Years of Territorial Politics
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:For many years, territorial politics was neglected in political science under the influence of a modernist paradigm according to which territory gives way to function as a principle of social and political organisation. ...
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, ...
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:Identifying the Nation
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:A New Elite? Politicians and Civil Servants in Scotland after Devolution
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; CAIRNEY, PaulDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:One aim of devolution in Scotland was to create a political class more representative of the country as a whole. In practice devolution has accelerated trends towards a professional background in Scottish representatives. ...
Title:Irish explanations
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Books reviewed:
Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long?
Tom Garvin
(Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004), xiv+278pp., ISBN: 0717137716
The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues
J. ...
Title:Rural Policy in Scotland After Devolution
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; STEVENSON, LindaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Governments across Europe, encouraged by the European Union, are moving from an agriculture policy, defined in sectoral terms, to a rural policy, with a spatial focus. Rural policy is a transversal policy, linking a number ...
Title:Policy Convergence and Divergence in Scotland under Devolution
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The scope for divergence of public policy between Scotland and the rest of the UK is constrained by institutional, political and contextual factors. The policy capacity of the Scottish Executive is limited but increasing. ...
Title:Devolution and public policy: a comparative perspective
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; MCEWEN, Nicola; LOSADA, Antón; MÁIZ, Ramón; WINCOTT, Daniel; SUBIRATS, Joan; RYNCK, Stefaan De; GREER, Scott L.; MORENO, Luis; TRELLES, CarlosDate:2005Type of Publication:Article