Professor Michael Keating

Professor Michael Keating The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science Chair in Scottish Politics work +44 (0)1224 272770 pref m.keating@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Social Sciences Dunbar Street Aberdeen AB24 3EN mobile 07758 329 876 from outside UK +44 7758 329 876

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Biography

Michael Keating was born in 1950, graduated from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1971, gained his PhD at Glasgow College of Technology (now Glasgow Caledonian University) in 1975,and received the qualification of Incorporated Linguist (Institute of Linguists) in 1981. He has a doctorate honoris causa from the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (Belgium). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He has worked at the University of Essex (1975-6), North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1976-9) and the University of Strathclyde (1979-88). From 1988 until 1999 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. From 2000 until 2010 he was Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence and was head of department between 2004 and 2007. He has held visiting positions at the Institut d'Etudes Politques de Paris; University of Santiago de Compostela; University of the Basque Country; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; the Norwegian Nobel Institute; Nuffield College, Oxford; University of Grenoble; Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is presently part-time professor at the University of Edinburgh.  From 2010 until 2013 he was ESRC Professorial Fellow and in 2013-14 he is ESRC Senior Fellow on the Future of the UK and Scotland programme..

Michael Keating speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.

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Research Interests

Michael Keating's interests include European politics, nationalism, public policy, urban and regional politics and society, and social science methodologies. He has recently completed a large project on Rescaling Europe and is currently working on the issue of Scottish independence. He has also been working to improve the interface between academics and practitioners in the field of public policy in Scotland and beyond. He has advised local governments in Scotland and Canada, the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament, the European Commission, OECD/SIGMA, OECD, the German Development Cooperation agency, and the Committee of the Regions on a range of issues, including public policy, devolution and federalism and the management of nationality conflicts.

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Current Research

I have several axes of research currently:

1. Rescaling Europe. This examines the transformation of territory across five dimensions: historical, functional, institutional, political and normative. The result will be a monograph to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

2. The territoralization of interest representation. This examines the way in which interest groups are changing their level of activity and their appreciation of functional issues in response to devolution in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Belgium

3. Methodological pluralism. This follows from the book edited with Donatella della Porta on Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences and examines the meaning of pluralism and the possibilities of combining approaches. Panels have been held at IPSA and PSA and a meeting in Florence in December 2010  discussed papers for an edited book.

4. Plurinational democracy. This continues an established line of research and examines the conditions for the accommodation of national differences within democratic societies. A book co-edited with Alain Gagnon (Université de Québec à Montréal) on autonomy and the management of diversity appeared with Palgrave in 2012.

 5. Public policy in Scotland. A second edition of The Government of Scotland appeared in 2010. I am one of the convenors of the Scottish Policy Innovation Forum, a group of academics and practitioners working on improving the links between academic work and practice. In January 2011 we launched the website Scothub (scothub.org) as a portal for information and exchange on public policy in Scotland.

6. Constitutional Futures in Scotland. My book on The Independence of Scotland was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. I am currently working on the implications of further constitutional change, putting Scotland in a comparative context. .

7. The Future of Social Democracy. With David McCrone (University of Edinburgh) I convene a group of scholars to produce a book on the future of social democracy in Europe,which will appear from Edinburgh University Press in 2013.

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Research Grants

ESRC Professorial Fellowship 2010-13. ESRC Follow-On grant, 2009-10. ESRC Senior Fellowship, 2013-14.

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Teaching Responsibilities

Nationalism

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External Responsibilities

Co-founder and co-director, Scottish Policy Innovation Forum.  External advisor to Promotions Committee, London School of Economics, 2007-. External Examiner, Cardiff University, 2013-. Member, selection committee of iCREA (Catalan research professorships), 2011; Advisory MIUR (Italian Research ministry).

Member of comité directeur, Centre sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ), 2003-. Advisory Board, Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), 2006- Member of Comité scientifique, Chaire d’Etudes Québécoises et Canadiennes, Université de Québec à Montréal, 2004-. Member, Consejo Asesor Cátedra de Estudios Internacionacionales, Universidad del País Vasco, 2003-.  Member, international board of Centre on European Governance, Identity and Public Policy, Cardiff University, 2004-.

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Co-editor, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2012-

Co-editor book series, Comparative Territorial Politics, Palgrave, 2011-

Editoral Boards of Environment and Planning c. Government and Policy; Space and Polity; Modern and Contemporary France; Studies; Politique et Sociétés, 1999; Journal of Public Policy; Ethnopolitics; British Politics, 2005; Politika. Revista de ciencias sociales; ECPR Monographs and ECPR Classics; Colección de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad del País Vasco; Revue Fédéralisme Régionalisme, 2007; L'Observatoire de la société britannique, 2008; Perspectives on Federalism (Centro Studi sul Federalismo; Comparative Political Studies; West European Politics; Papeles del CEIC (Centro de Investigaciones sobre la Identidad Colectiva; European Urban and Regional Studies; Revista Española de Ciencia Política.

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Publications

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Working Papers

• Keating, MJ. & Wilson, AB. (2010). 'Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option'. Edinburgh Europa Paper Series, no. 4, vol. 2010, University of Edinburgh Europa Institute.

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'Intergovernmental Relations and Innovation: From cooperative to competitive welfare federalism in the UK'. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol 14, no. 2, pp. 214-230.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2011.00484.x
• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'Rethinking Sovereignty: Independence-lite, devolution-max and national accommodation'. Revista d’Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, vol 16, pp. 9-29.
• Keating, MJ. & Della Porta, D. (2010). 'In difesa del pluralismo. Combinare gli approcci nelle scienze sociali'. Quaderni di Scienza Politica, vol 2010, no. 1, pp. 575-598.
• Keating, MJ. (2010). 'The Strange Death of Unionist Scotland'. Government and Opposition, vol 45, no. 3, pp. 365-385.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2010.01317.x
• Keating, MJ. (2009). 'Social Citizenship, Solidarity and Welfare in Regionalized and Plurinational States'. Citizenship Studies, vol 13, no. 5, pp. 501-513.
• Keating, M. (2009). 'Putting European Political Science Back Together Again'. European Political Science Review, vol 1, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1755773909990087
• Keating, MJ. & Wilson, AB. (2009). 'Renegotiating the State of Autonomies: Statute Reform and Multi-level Politics in Spain'. West European Politics, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 536-558.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/01402380902779089
• Keating, M. (2009). 'Rescaling Europe'. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol 10, no. 1, pp. 34-50.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/15705850802699995
• Keating, M. (2009). 'Scottish Independence'. Scottish Affairs, vol 68, pp. 95-112.
• Keating, M. (2008). 'Thirty Years of Territorial Politics'. West European Politics, vol 31, no. 1-2, pp. 60-81.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/01402380701833723
• Keating, MJ. & Cairney, PA. (2006). 'A New Elite? Politicians and Civil Servants in Scotland after Devolution'. Parliamentary Affairs, no. 1, pp. 43-59.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/PA/GSJ009
• Keating, MJ. & Stevenson, L. (2006). 'Rural Policy in Scotland after Devolution'. Regional Studies, vol 40, no. 3, pp. 397-407.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/00343400600632820
• Keating, MJ. (2006). 'La importancia recurrente del territorio.: Las regiones y la historia del Estado europeo'. Alcores, vol 2, pp. 37-56.
• Keating, MJ. & Bray, Z. (2006). 'Renegotiating Sovereignty: Basque nationalism and the rise and fall of the Ibarretxe Plan'. Ethnopolitics, vol 5, no. 4, pp. 347-364.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/17449050600865503
• Keating, MJ. (2005). 'Higher Education Policy in Scotland and England after Devolution'. Regional and Federal Studies, vol 14, no. 4, pp. 423-435.
• Keating, MJ. (2005). 'Policy Divergence and Convergence in Scotland under Devolution'. Regional Studies, vol 39, no. 4, pp. 453-463.
• Cairney, PA. & Keating, MJ. (2004). 'Sewel Motions in the Scottish Parliament'. Scottish Affairs, vol 47, pp. 115-134.
• Keating, MJ. (2004). 'European Integration and the Nationalities Question'. Politics and Society, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 367-22.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0032329204267295
• Keating, MJ. (2003). 'Social Inclusion, Devolution and Policy Divergence'. Political Quarterly, vol 74.4, pp. 429-430.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00554
• Keating, MJ., Stevenson, LM., Cairney, PA. & Taylor, K. (2003). 'Does Devolution Make a Difference? Legislative Output and Policy Divergence in Scotland'. Journal of Legislative Studies, vol 9.3.
• Keating, MJ. & de Frantz, M. (2003). 'Culture-led strategies for urban regeneration: a comparative perspective on Bilbao'. International Journal of Iberian Studies, vol 16, no. 3, pp. 187-194.
• Keating, MJ. (2002). 'Plurinational Democracy in a Post-Sovereign Order'. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol 53.4, pp. 351-365.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'L'Après-souveraineté. Les nations dans le nouvel ordre mondial'. Bulletin d'Histoire Politique, vol 10.1, pp. 145-159.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'Rethinking the Region. Culture, Institutions and Economic Development in Catalonia and Galicia'. European Urban and Regional Studies, vol 8, no. 3, pp. 217-234.
• Keating, MJ. (1991). 'Local Economic Development Politics in France''. Journal of Urban Affairs, vol 13, no. 4, pp. 443-59.
• Keating, MJ. (1991). ''Regionalism, Peripheral Nationalism and the State in Western Europe.: A Political Model'. Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol 18, no. 1-2, pp. 117-29.
• Keating, MJ. & Jones, B. (1991). 'Scotland and Wales. European Integration and Peripheral Assertion'. Parliamentary Affairs, pp. 311-24.
• Keating, MJ. & Mehrhoff, A. (1991). 'American State and Canadian Provincial Roles in Urban Planning: A study of London, Ontario and St. Cloud, Minnesota'. Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy, vol 10, pp. 173-87.
• Keating, MJ. (1989). 'The Disintegration of Urban Policy.: Glasgow and the New Britain'. Urban Affairs Quarterly, vol 24, no. 4, pp. 513-36.
• Keating, MJ. (1989). 'Local Government and Economic Development in Western Europe'. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 301-12.
• Keating, MJ. (1988). 'Does Regional Government Work?: The Experience of France, Italy and Spain'. Governance, pp. 184-204.
• Carter, C. & Keating, MJ. (1987). 'Policy Making in Scottish Government.: The Designation of Cumbernauld New Town'. Public Administration, vol 65, no. 4, pp. 391-405.
• Keating, MJ. (1986). 'Revendication et Lamentation. The Failure of Regional Nationalism in Languedoc'. Journal of Area Studies.
• Keating, MJ. (1985). 'The Rise and Decline of Micronationalism in Mainland France'. Political Studies, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 1-18.
• Keating, MJ. (1985). 'Whatever Happened to Regional Government'. Local Government Studies, vol 11, no. 6, pp. 111-22.
• Midwinter, A., Keating, MJ. & Taylor, P. (1984). 'Current Expenditure Guidelines in Scotland: A Failure of Indicative Planning'. Local Government Studies, vol 10, no. 2, pp. 21-31.
• Midwinter, A., Keating, MJ. & Taylor, P. (1984). 'The Politics of Scottish Housing Plans'. Policy & Politics, vol 12, no. 2, pp. 145-66.
• Keating, MJ. (1983). 'The Regionalization of the French Plan'. Planning and Administration, vol 2, pp. 29-35.
• Keating, MJ. (1983). 'Decentralisation in Mitterrand's France'. Public Administration, vol 61, no. 3, pp. 237-52.
• Midwinter, A., Keating, MJ. & Taylor, P. (1983). ''Excessive and Unreasonable': The Politics of the Scottish Hit List'. Political Studies, vol 33, no. 3, pp. 394-417.
• Keating, MJ. (1982). 'Area, Power and Intergovernmental Relations: Some problems of analysis within the liberal democratic tradition'. Journal of Area Studies, vol 6.
• Keating, MJ. & Lindley, P. (1981). 'Devolution, The Scotland and Wales Bills'. Public Administration Bulletin, vol 37, pp. 37-54.
• Keating, MJ. (1978). 'Parliamentary Behaviour as a Test of Scottish Integration into the United Kingdom'. Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol 11, no. 3, pp. 409-29.
• Keating, MJ. (1976). 'Admnistrative Devolution in Practice: The Secretary of State for Scotland and the Scottish Office'. Public Administration, vol 54, no. 2, pp. 133-46.

Editorials

• Keating, MJ. & Cairney, PA. (2012). 'Policy Transfer and Learning'. Regional and Federal Studies, vol 22, no. 3.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'Territorial Flexibility'. in J Hayward & R Wurtzel (eds), European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 146-164.
• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'The End of the Union?: Scottish Nationalism and the UK State'. in K Breen & S O'Neill (eds), After the Nation? : Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism. Palgrave, pp. 103-119.
• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'Reforging the Nation: Britain, Scotland and the Crisis of Unionism'. in M Seymour & A-G Gagnon (eds), Multinational Federalism: Problems and Prospects. Palgrave, pp. 107-129.
• Keating, MJ. (2012). 'Rescaling Europe'. in D Jagetic Anderson, M Klatt & M Sandberg (eds), The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Rescaling Europe. Ashgate, pp. 23-34.
• Keating, MJ. (2011). 'Nationalism'. in B Badie, D Berg-Schlosser & L Morlino (eds), International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Sage Publications.
  [Online] DOI: 10.4135/9781412994163
• Keating, MJ. (2011). 'Capacité politique'. in In Romain Pasquier, Sébastien Guignier and Alistair Cole (eds), Dictionary of territorial policy. Presses de la Fondation Nationales des Sciences Politiques, pp. 52-57.
• Keating, MJ. (2003). 'Regno Unito'. in In: L'Europa delle autonomie (ed. D'Atena, A.), Giuffrè, Milano. In: L'Europa delle autonomie (ed. D'Atena, A.), Giuffrè, Milano, pp. 193-214.
• Keating, MJ. (2003). 'Sovereignty and Plurinational Democracy. Problems in political science'. in In: Sovereignty in Transition (ed. Walker, N.), Hart, Oxford. In: Sovereignty in Transition (ed. Walker, N.), Hart, Oxford, pp. 191-208.
• Keating, MJ. (2002). 'Europe's Changing Political Landscape: Territorial Restructuring and New Forms of Government'. in In: Convergence and Divergence in European Public Law (eds. Beaumont,P.; Lyons,C.; Walker,N.), Hart, Oxford. In: Convergence and Divergence in European Public Law (eds. Beaumont,P.; Lyons,C.; Walker,N.), Hart, Oxford.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'So Many Nations, So Few States. Accommodating Minority Nationalism in the Global Era'. in Struggles for Recognition in Multinational Societies (eds. Gagnon,A-g.;Tully,J.), Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, Struggles for Recognition in Multinational Societies (eds. Gagnon,A-g.;Tully,J.), Cambridge University Press.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'Nations without States: minority nationalism in the global era'. in In: Democracy and National Pluralism (ed. Requejo,F.), Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, In: Democracy and National Pluralism (ed. Requejo,F.), Cambridge University Press.

Books and Reports

Books

• Gagnon, A-G & Keating, MJ. (eds) (2012). 'Political Autonomy and Divided Societies: Imagining Democratic Alternatives in Complex Settings'. Palgrave.
• Keating, MJ. (2010). 'The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution'. 2nd edn, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. (2009). 'The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union'. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Della Porta, D. & Keating, MJ. (eds) (2008). 'Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. (2005). 'The Government of Scotland. Public Policy Making after Devolution'. Unknown Publisher, Edinburgh University Press.
• Keating, MJ. & Hughes, J. (eds) (2003). 'The Regional Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe: Territorial Restructuring and European Integration'. Peter Lang Pub., Brussels.
• Keating, MJ., Loughlin, J. & Deschouwer, K. (2003). 'Culture, Institutions and Economic Development: A Study of Eight European Regions'. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'Plurinational Democracy. Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era'. Unknown Publisher, Oxford University Press.
• Keating, MJ. & McGarry, J. (2001). 'Minority Nationalism in the Changing State Order'. Unknown Publisher, Oxford University Press.
• Keating, MJ. (2001). 'Nations against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland'. 2nd edn, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. & Aldecoa, F. (eds) (1999). 'Paradiplomacy in Action: The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments'. Cass Series in Regional & Federal Studies, Frank Cass & Co., London, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. (1988). 'The City that Refused to Die. Glasgow: the politics of urban regeneration'. Aberdeen University Press.
• Keating, MJ. (1988). 'State and Regional Nationalism: Territorial Politics and the European State'. Harvester Wheatsheaf, London, United Kingdom.
• Keating, MJ. & Hainsworth, P. (1986). 'Decentralisation and Change in Contemporary France'. Gower, Aldershot.
• Keating, MJ. & Boyle, R. (1986). 'Remaking Urban Scotland'. Edinburgh University Press.
• Barry, J. & Keating, MJ. (1985). 'Labour and the British State'. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Keating, MJ. & Midwinter, A. (1983). 'The Government of Scotland'. Mainstream (Edinburgh, Scotland), Edinburgh.
• Keating, MJ. & Bleiman, D. (1979). 'Labour and Scottish Nationalism'. Macmillan Publishers, London.

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