Divided Societies: Electoral Polarisation and the Basque Country

Moreno, Luis

doi:10.1057/9780230523258_3

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“…The Spanish data provide the opportunity to test Moreno's (2001) claim that Spain lacks a single state identity by looking for differences between historical Spanish nationalities. Based on the 1978 Spanish Constitution, Spain is now divided into 17 autonomous communities (AC), 53 provincial governments, and 8.098 municipalities.…”

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“…Controlling therefore for these factors leads to a reduction of cultural differences between the Basque country and the regions in the reference group. Interestingly, Moreno (2001) reported results from a periodic survey by the newspaper País that showed Basques to have a stronger feeling of self identity than people from other regions; specifically, 23 percent of Basques declared they felt "only Basque." On the other hand, despite a strong sense of identity in Catalonia, separatism is weaker than in the share in personal income tax as ceded, creating a decreasing degree of their financial dependence on central government (Toboso, 2005).…”

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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries^*

Torgler¹,

Schneider²

2007

Social Science Quarterly

259

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Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance, several researchers have argued that citizens' attitudes toward paying taxes, defined as tax morale, helps to explain the high degree of tax compliance. However, most studies have treated tax morale as a black box, without discussing which factors shape it. Additionally, the tax compliance literature provides little empirical research that investigates attitudes toward paying taxes in Europe. Copyright (c) 2007 Southwestern Social Science Association.

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Section: Spainmentioning

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Section: Spainmentioning

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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries^*

Torgler¹,

Schneider²

2007

Social Science Quarterly

259

150

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“…11 In some instances the Comunidades Autónomas have attempted to display 'blame avoidance' practices and to divert their own responsibilities by portraying the central state as a 'scapegoat' of their own failures; in other circumstances, central administration officials have referred (usually 'off the record') to the insufficient skills of regional policy-makers. In such a process of mutual indictments, popular 'understanding' has generally sympathized with the regional claims, while central managers have usually struggled with the reputation of being inheritors of a centralist mentality characteristic of the former dictatorship (Solé Tura, 1985;Moreno, 2004).…”

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Decentralization and welfare reform in Andalusia

Moreno

Trelles

2005

Regional & Federal Studies

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Decentralization of the Spanish welfare state has stimulated regional policy innovation. A 'demonstration effect' among all Spanish Comunidades Autónomas has so far acted as a policy equalizer. In Andalusia, where a strong sense of common identity is widely shared, the regional government (Junta) has implemented new welfare policies which have contributed to consolidate its institutional legitimacy. This article reviews the process of decentralization in Spain. It concentrates on the 'catching up' quest articulated by Andalusia to gain a similar status and degree of autonomy as those achieved by the 'historical nationalities' (Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia).

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“…However, behind this idea, there was no case analysis using Arend Lijphart's ( and ) consociational scheme. The result was an intuitive exercise that spread in academic circles (Laiz Castro ; Lecours and Moreno ; Mansvelt Beck ; Moreno , ; Pérez‐Nievas ).…”

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Power‐sharing coalitions in the Basque Country (1987–1998): centripetal coalitions vs. consociational coalitions

Blas

2018

Nations and Nationalism

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From 1987 to 1998, the Basque government was made up of a coalition between Basque nationalists and unionists. However, there are doubts about whether this experience has a consociational character. In order to clarify this, the article analyses the four characteristics of Lijphart's scheme, focussing on the degree of power‐sharing of the Basque governments using the qualitative distinction of McGarry and O'Leary and the centripetal approach, creating the power‐sharing in government index and studying the degree of ideological proximity of the parties making up the coalition. The conclusions are that in the Basque case, there were no complete or concurrent consociational governments, but instead, there were centripetal coalitions. Furthermore, it makes clear that an electoral system with high proportionality is an obstacle when it comes to maintaining cross‐segment governments in societies that lack stability in the correlation of forces among segments and use centripetal power‐sharing coalitions or weak or concurrent consotiational coalitions. The most realistic choice in order to preserve the power‐sharing government would be adopting a proportional sequential coalition and a proportional electoral system with significative electoral threshold to avoid the emergence of anti‐consociational parties.

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Divided Societies: Electoral Polarisation and the Basque Country

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries^*

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries^*

Decentralization and welfare reform in Andalusia

Power‐sharing coalitions in the Basque Country (1987–1998): centripetal coalitions vs. consociational coalitions

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Divided Societies: Electoral Polarisation and the Basque Country

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries*

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries*

Decentralization and welfare reform in Andalusia

Power‐sharing coalitions in the Basque Country (1987–1998): centripetal coalitions vs. consociational coalitions

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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries^*

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