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A Political Sociology to Compare Regionalisms: The Intellectual Legacy

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New light on the study of regionalisms is shed through a specific epistemological stance which emerged as an extension of international relations debates as well as from public policy analysis, particularly promoted by French scholars. The political sociology of regionalism comes at the confluence of these two blocs of literature. This chapter looks back on those legacies.

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Parthenay, K. (2019). A Political Sociology to Compare Regionalisms: The Intellectual Legacy. In: A Political Sociology of Regionalisms. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98434-6_3

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