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This book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal-democracies. It explains why some nationalist movements have experienced a significant increase in the strength of secessionism over the last decade or so, while other have not.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Nationalism and Secessionism: Autonomy, Static and Dynamic
- 3: Catalonia : The Secessionist Turn
- 4: Scotland: The Secessionist Surge
- 5: Flanders: The Marginality of Secessionism
- 6: South Tyrol: From Irredentism and Secessionism to Autonomy
- 7: Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy: the Basque Country, Puerto Rico, and Québec
- 8: Towards a Theory of Secessionism in Liberal-Democracies
- 9: Conclusion
About the author
André Lecours is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are nationalism and federalism. He is the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 2005); the author of Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007), the co-author (with Daniel Béland) of Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008); and the co-author (with Daniel Béland, Gregory Marchildon, Haizhen Mou and Rose Olfert) of Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
Summary
This book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal-democracies. It explains why some nationalist movements have experienced a significant increase in the strength of secessionism over the last decade or so, while other have not.
Additional text
Nationalism, Secessionism and Autonomy takes a different perspective on one of today's most controversial social science problems. Rather than examining the formation and histories of separatist and nationalist movements, the book examines the essence of separatist movements and the institutional interactions that give rise to them. The book therefore opens a new window of thought for those interested in separatist movements.
