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Jaime Lluch is a Fellow of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Political Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He is editor of Constitutionalism and the Politics of Accommodation in Multinational Democracies.
List of contents
PART I
THE PARADOX OF THE INTERNAL DIFFERENTIATION IN NATIONAL MOVEMENTS
Introduction. Secessionism and Non-Secessionism in Substate National Movements
Chapter 1. Accounting for the Internal Variation in Substate National Movements
PART II
THE ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, AND EVOLUTION OF NATIONAL MOVEMENTS
Chapter 2. Evolution Within the Catalan National Movement Between 1976 and 2010: The Rise of Independentist Nationalism
Chapter 3. Evolution Within the Québécois National Movement Between 1976 and 2010: The Rise of Autonomist Nationalism
PART III
SHADES OF NATIONHOOD: NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND SUBSTATE NATIONAL MOVEMENTS
Chapter 4. Shades of Nationhood and the National Consciousness of Substate Nationalists
Chapter 5. Elites, Militants, and Ideology: National Parties and National Consciousness
PART IV
VISIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY: VARIETIES OF SUBSTATE NATIONALIST IDEOLOGIES
Chapter 6. Sovereignty and Procedure: The Ideology of Independentist Substate Nationalism
Chapter 7. Fragments of Sovereignty: The Ideology of Autonomist Substate Nationalism
Chapter 8. Shared Sovereignty: The Ideology of Federalist Substate Nationalism
PART V
MULTINATIONAL DEMOCRACIES AND THE MORAL POLITY OF THE SUBSTATE NATIONALIST
Chapter 9. The Discourse and Attitudes of Substate Nationalists
Chapter 10. The Moral Polity of the Stateless Nationalist
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Substate Nationalism and Its Accommodation in Multinational Democracies
Appendix. Field Research Methodology
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Jaime Lluch is a Fellow of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Political Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He is editor of Constitutionalism and the Politics of Accommodation in Multinational Democracies.
Summary
Visions of Sovereignty provides a deep analysis of political activity within the Quebecois and Catalonian national movements from a comparative perspective. This interdisciplinary study examines why some nationalists take a secessionist stance while others within the same movement chose nonsecessionist approaches toward greater self-rule.
