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Bavaria: another case of a right to decide?

Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen; Holesch, Adam, 1977- (2017-03-22)

This paper analyses the possible existence of a Bavarian right to decide, including the independence option. In conclusion, there is no such right under international law or the German constitution. Bavaria has not been ...
Capital cities of federations. On the way to analysing the normative base of their asymmetrical status

Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen (2011-12-01)

Federal Capitals often have special statutes. Compared with member states, they often enjoy a lower degree of self-government and a lesser share in the governing of the federation. Why do actors choose such devices, and ...
Cosmopolitan justice and minority rights: the case of minority nations (or Kant again, but different)

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2006-02)

Global Justice has usually been understood to mean institutional and social justice (political and redistributive issues on a global scale). In contrast, issues involving different national and cultural identities, are ...
Educational policy in Spain - a federal illusion?

Holesch, Adam, 1977- (2012-02)

Education and health policy are two of the public policies, which in Spain have been assigned to the Autonomous Communities (AC). This transfer of powers could be considered a proof for the strong “self-rule” of the AC, ...
Una federació necessita una llengua comuna?

Riera Gil, Elvira, 1964- (2013-07-18)

Tradicionalment s’ha considerat que una comunitat política necessita una llengua comuna com a base d’una cultura política compartida, necessària per al funcionament de les institucions democràtiques, l’exercici de la ...
Federalism and democracy. The case of minority nations: a federalist deficit

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2007-04-20)

In this chapter, after pointing out the different logics that lie behind the familiar ideas of democracy and federalism, I have dealt with the case of plurinational federal democracies. Having put forward a double criterion ...
Intertwined cultural demands of immigrants and minority nations

Zapata Barrero, Ricard (2007-04-20)

Since at least the last two decades of the 20th century, the normative debate on multiculturalism has been one-dimensional. It has deployed arguments related to cultural demands either linked to feminism and sub-cultural ...
Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism. Refining theory to improve democratic practice

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2014-10-30)

Isaiah Berlin’s humanistic liberalism is still an influential theory and an implacable antidote against extremism and fanaticism in all their guises. The author of this article notes that one of the main contributions of ...
National pluralism, recognition, federalism and secession (or Hegel was a clever guy)

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2014-07-08)
Obstacles and passages to secession in liberal-democratic contexts. Lessons from Catalonia

Bossacoma i Busquets, Pau (2018-04-20)

This paper aims to show that secession, especially if unilateral, is difficult in contexts of liberal democracy. The empirical difficulties may, however, ease the normative recognition of a right to secede. After some ...
Pluralismo religioso, multiculturalidad y democracias liberales

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2010-10-01)

Este WP analiza la regulación del pluralismo religioso en las democracias liberales como uno de los aspectos mas destacados de la creciente multiculturalidad de las democracias actuales. Tras situar el liberalismo político ...
Recognition and political accommodation: from regionalism to secessionism. The Catalan case

Requejo, Ferran, 1951-; Sanjaume Calvet, Marc (2013-05)

Having lived through a bloody civil war in the 1930s followed by four decades of General Franco’s dictatorship, the Spanish state carried out a transition to a democratic system at the end of the 1970s. The 1978 Constitution ...
Religions and liberal democracies

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2014-07-08)
Revealing the dark side of traditional democracies in plurinational societies. The case of Catalonia and the Spanish “Estado de las Autonomías”

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2009-11-09)

In this article, I firstly offer a synthesis of a brief set of analytical elements of the theory of democracy and federalism established in the recent debate which identify a number of flaws in the normative and institutional ...
Secession and liberal democracy. The case of the Basque country

Requejo, Ferran, 1951-; Sanjaume Calvet, Marc (2009-12-23)

The academic debate about the secession of a territory which is part of a liberal democracy state displays an initial contrast. On the one hand, practical secessionist movements usually legitimize their position using ...
The Nationalism of stateless nations and Europe. The Catalan case

Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen (2009-12-17)

This paper analyzes how the ideas and concepts of Europe have developed in Catalonia, under the conditions of a decentralizing “nation-state” (Spain) on one hand, and the European integration process on the other. It ...
The Republic and its boundaries. Democratic republicanism and theories of right of secession

Pérez, Lluís (Pérez Lozano) (2014-12-01)

Despite the fact of dealing with the same object (the state, and specially the democratic state) from two different focus of interest, little effort has been devoted to analyze the normative relationship between democratic ...
Theorizing institutional changes: understanding decentralization and federalization in Brazil, Spain and South Africa

Ferreira do Vale, Helder (2010-03-15)

In light of the existing theories about institutional change, this paper seeks to advance a common framework to understand the unfolding of decentralization and federalization in three countries: Brazil, Spain, and South ...
Three theories of liberalism for the three theories of federalism. A Hegelian turn

Requejo, Ferran, 1951- (2009-11-09)

This paper links different political liberal theories, considered from the perspective of their moral ontology, with federal democracies. After giving a brief description of these theories, I discuss their relationship ...
When federalism is not enough? Paths to cooperation in Federal democracies

Ferreira do Vale, Helder (2011-06-22)

This paper explores an overlooked issue in the literature on federations and federalism: the relationship between federalism and democracy. Starting from the assumption that federalism per se is not enough to guarantee ...