Gypsies and Travellers: a big or divided society?
研究了地方主义对吉普赛人和旅行者等弱势少数群体的影响，发现地方主义可能阻碍平等，但中央集权也可能适得其反，并提出了融合地方参与和中央保障的政策框架。
The aim of this article is to explore the impact of localism on vulnerable minorities like Gypsies and Travellers. This paper draws on the literature on social contract, with particular reference to Hobbes, Rawls and Habermas. The key findings of this paper indicate that localism can impede equality but also that statist forms of centralism can be counterproductive to the achievement of equality. The insights in this paper contribute to the literature on equality by proposing a policy framework which fuses the participatory and deliberative practices associated with forms of localism with the safeguards and protection of centralism.