The main question posed by Nicola McEwen is whether the rise of substate nationalism in Scotland and Quebec can be better understood in the light of the diminished scope of the British and Canadian welfare states. The main hypothesis put forward by the author is that the declining significance of welfare contributed to the rise of substate nationalism in each of the cases under examination. The focus of this study is mainly on the socio-political dimension of nationalism rather than its linguistic or cultural basis.

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