Recognition and political accommodation: from regionalism to secessionism. The Catalan case
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- dc.contributor.author Requejo, Ferran, 1951-ca
- dc.contributor.author Sanjaume Calvet, Marcca
- dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-22T01:54:43Z
- dc.date.available 2013-05-22T01:54:43Z
- dc.date.issued 2013-05ca
- dc.date.modified 2013-05-21T07:59:14Zca
- dc.description.abstract 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 was the legal outcome of this transition process. Among other things, it established a territorial model – the so-called “Estado de las Autonomías” (State of Autonomous Communities) – which was designed to satisfy the historical demands for recognition and self-government of, above all, the citizens and institutions of Catalonia and the Basque Country .In recent years support for independence has increased in Catalonia. Different indicators show that pro-independence demands are endorsed by a majority of its citizens, as well as by most of the political parties and organizations that represent its civil society. This is a new phenomenon. Those in favour of independence had been in the minority throughout the 20th century. Nowadays, however, demands of a pro-autonomy and pro-federalist nature, which until recently had been dominant, have gradually lost public support in favour of demands for self-determination and secession. This paper analyses the massive increase in support for secession in Catalonia during the early years of the 21st century. After describing the different theories of secession in plurinational liberal democracies (section 1), we analyse Catalonia’s political evolution over the past decade focusing on the shortcomings with regard to constitutional recognition and accommodation displayed by the Spanish political system. The latter have been exacerbated by the reform process of Catalonia’s Statute of Autonomy (2006) and the subsequent judgement of Spain’s Constitutional Court regarding the aforementioned Statute (2010) (section 2). Finally, we present our conclusions by linking the Catalan case with theories of secession applied to plurinational contextsca
- dc.format 27 p.ca
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- dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2072/211447ca
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20628
- dc.language.iso engca
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- dc.source.uri RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)ca
- dc.subject.other Regionalisme -- Catalunyaca
- dc.subject.other Separatisme -- Catalunyaca
- dc.subject.other Indepèndencia -- Catalunyaca
- dc.subject.other Nacionalisme -- Catalunyaca
- dc.subject.other Autodeterminació nacional -- Catalunyaca
- dc.subject.other Catalunya. Estatut (2006)ca
- dc.subject.other 3 - Ciències socialsca
- dc.title Recognition and political accommodation: from regionalism to secessionism. The Catalan caseca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca