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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813759003321

Autore

Greer Scott L

Titolo

Nationalism and self-government : the politics of autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia / / Scott L. Greer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7914-8029-1

1-4294-7147-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in national identities

Disciplina

320.9411

Soggetti

Self-determination, National - Scotland

Nationalism - Spain - Catalonia - History

Scotland History Autonomy and independence movements

Scotland Politics and government 20th century

Catalonia (Spain) Politics and government 20th century

Catalonia (Spain) History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Autonomy and its explanations -- Two stateless nations : Scotland and Catalonia -- Scotland 1960-1979 : the road to nowhere -- Scotland 1979-1997 : centralization and the backlash -- Catalonia 1975-1980 : compelling autonomy -- Catalonia 1980-2000 -- Shaping autonomous Scotland : the Scotland Office and Scotland Acts -- Constructing Catalonia : policy sectors and the politics of competencies -- Will they stay or will they go?

Sommario/riassunto

Scotland and Catalonia, both ancient nations with strong nationalisms within larger states, are exemplars of the management of ethnic conflict in multinational democracies and of global trends toward regional government. Focusing on these two countries, Scott L. Greer explores why nationalist mobilization arose when it did and why it stopped at autonomy rather than statehood. He challenges the notion that national identity or institutional design explains their relative success as stable multinational democracies and argues that the key is their strong regional societies and their regional organizations' preferences for autonomy and environmental stability