Michael Keating
Keating in 2015
Born	(1950-02-02)2 February 1950 (age 75) England
Citizenship	British Irish Canadian
Occupation	Political scientist

Michael KeatingFBAFRSEFAcSS (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising innationalism,European politics,regional politics, anddevolution.^[1][2] He is Professor of Scottish Politics at theUniversity of Aberdeen^[3] and Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change at theUniversity of Edinburgh.

Keating was born inNorth East England to Scottish and Irish parents.^[4] He holds British, Irish, and Canadian citizenships.^[5] Keating holds a BA from theUniversity of Oxford and a PhD from Glasgow College of Technology, now theGlasgow Caledonian University.^[4]

Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of Western Ontario, Canada and between 1979 and 1988, taught at theUniversity of Strathclyde.^[1] He has been visiting professor in the United States, Spain, France, Australia, and England. From 2000 until 2010, he was onsecondment from Aberdeen as Professor of Political and Social Sciences at theEuropean University Institute, Florence, where he was head of the department between 2004 and 2007.^[6]

He is author of eighteen books and editor of another eighteen, as well as numerous academic articles and chapters. His publications includeNations Against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland (Macmillan, 1996),Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era (Oxford University Press, 2001),The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution (Edinburgh University Press, 2005),The Independence of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2009),Rescaling the European State (Oxford University Press, 2013),Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (edited withDonatella della Porta – Cambridge University Press, 2008), andDebating Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2017).^[5]

Keating is a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh,^[7] Fellow of theBritish Academy, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and Member of the European Academy.

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