Visions of sovereignty : nationalism and accommodation in multinational democracies /
Author / Creator: | Lluch, Jaime. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014. |
Description: | viii, 332 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century. |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10090752 |
Summary: | In the contemporary world, there are many democratic states whose minority nations have pushed for constitutional reform, greater autonomy, and asymmetric federalism. Substate national movements within countries such as Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the United Kingdom are heterogeneous: some nationalists advocate independence, others seek an autonomous special status within the state, and yet others often seek greater self-government as a constituent unit of a federation or federal system. What motivates substate nationalists to prioritize one constitutional vision over another is one of the great puzzles of ethnonational constitutional politics. In Visions of Sovereignty , Jaime Lluch examines why some nationalists adopt a secessionist stance while others within the same national movement choose a nonsecessionist constitutional orientation. |
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Physical Description: | viii, 332 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812246001 0812246004 |