Itçaina, Xabier <br/><br/>
National Heritage and the Institutionalization of the SSE in Three Regions of Southern Europe: Four Research Directions 

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<br/><br/> This article proposes an exploratory research design in order to apprehend the territorial dynamics of social and solidarity-based economic experience. Examples are taken in three Southern European regions (Aquitaine, Spanish Basque Country, Emilia Romagna). Four research directions are scrutinized: the historical inheritance signalled by an overlapping between social economy, territorial socio-economy and political culture; the different construction of categories (social economy, third sector,...); the institutionalisation of social economy at the regional level; the dynamics of europeanisation.