Limits to territorial nationalization in election support for an independence-aimed regional nationalism in Catalonia

Lepič, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.08.003

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“…This was also reflected on the score (y-axis value) of the unionism index (Figure 3), where large municipalities correspond mainly to towns situated on the coastal conurbations of the region. These big conurbations have the highest proportions of citizens from migrant origins, either from other Spanish regions or from abroad (Barceló 2014;Guntermann et al 2018;Hierro 2015;Lepic 2017;OEC Group 2017;Rodon and Guinjoan 2018).…”

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Privileged Rebels: A Longitudinal Analysis of Distinctive Economic Traits of Catalonian Secessionism

2020

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During the last decade, the Catalonian secessionist challenge induced a chronic crisis within Spain's politics that does not offer hints of a viable arrangement. The rapidly escalating demands for secession ran almost in parallel with the accentuation of the economic recession that followed the disruption of the world financial system in 2008-2010. Such secession claims reached maximums during 2012-2014, attaining support levels of nearly 50% of citizenry in favour of independence. These figures subsequently diminished a bit but remained close to that level until today. Despite the coincident course, previous studies had shown that the impact of economic hardships was not a major factor in explaining the segregation urgencies, connecting them instead to triggers related to internecine political struggles in the region: Harsh litigations that resulted in an abrupt polarization along nationalistic features in wide segments of the population. In this longitudinal analysis based on the responses of 88,538 individuals through a regular series of 45 official surveys, in the period 2006-2019, we show that economic factors did play a role in the secessionist wave. Our findings showed that the main idiomatic segmentation (Catalan vs. Spanish, as family language) interacted with economic segmentations in inducing variations on national identity feelings that resulted in erosions of the dual CatSpanish identity. Moreover, our findings also showed that the more privileged segments of Catalonian citizenry where those that mostly supported secession, whereas poorer and unprotected citizenry was clearly against it. All the data points to the conclusion that the secessionist challenge was, in fact, a rebellion of the wealthier and well-situated people.

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Privileged Rebels: A Longitudinal Analysis of Distinctive Economic Traits of Catalonian Secessionism

2020

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“…Contexts such as the identity of the territory, the politics, the economy, the linguistics, or the geography within which the political affiliations, territorial confrontations, or feelings found among citizens are forged are often not exclusively state or regional. Knowledge of this context is essential to avoid conflicts and to attain local, regional, national, and European aspirations (Lepič 2017).…”

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“…As Mudde (2007) indicated, these nationalisms, in many cases, are not immune to nativism, xenophobia, or populism. The Catalan case, like the Escoses, is considered liberal, civic, and inclusive (Lepič 2017) The unstable situation between Spain and Catalonia began much further back in time, developing and growing around the concept of nationalism. This concept seems to be divided between a political acceptation and another based on the identity of the people.…”

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Populism and Independence Movements in Europe: The Catalan-Spanish Case

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The most powerful countries in the world are immersed in a process of economic and cultural globalization. As an effect of action and reaction, there is an increasing emergence of nationalistic phenomena. This investigation undertakes an analysis of the current situation in Europe and places particular focus on the case of the Catalan independence movement, subjacent to the history of Spain, which has been growing notably in recent times. With 3600 articles reviewed, this study investigates the repercussions and communicative strategies from the point of view of the principal Spanish digital media. The results reveal two parallel universes, clearly differentiated by their perspective of the conflict, their contradictory headlines, and their parallel truths. This text presents key findings that are relevant for the study of political communication in the context of media studies.

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“…Note also the decrease of abstention and the increase of pro-secession votes between these elections everywhere in the map. Lepic (2017) discusses of how the spatial distribution of the Catalan nationalist vote evolved between 1985 and 2015, and how that vote correlates with socio-demographic covariates. Lepic shows that the 2010-2012 elections were a watershed in the level of support for the Catalan nationalist vote, and it partitions Catalonia into spatial modes.…”

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Mapping vote transition at the 2012 outset of the Catalan push for independence

Puig

Ginebra

2020

Scottish Geographical Journal

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In 2012 Catalan politics came to a standstill, and a push for independence was triggered by a huge pro-independence rally. That push led, in 2017, to the Spanish government taking over the Catalan government, and top Catalan officials either going into exile or being jailed, tried, and convicted for sedition in 2019. This article investigates how Catalans switched their vote between the elections held shortly before and just after that 2012 rally, with a novel ecological inference approach that groups geographical areas based on the similarity/switching of vote patterns and estimates the vote-switch patterns for individuals in each group. This approach allows one to map how individual vote-switch patterns vary in space and estimate how the support for parties in favour and against independence shifted between these two elections.

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Limits to territorial nationalization in election support for an independence-aimed regional nationalism in Catalonia

Cited by 31 publications

References 54 publications

Privileged Rebels: A Longitudinal Analysis of Distinctive Economic Traits of Catalonian Secessionism

Privileged Rebels: A Longitudinal Analysis of Distinctive Economic Traits of Catalonian Secessionism

Populism and Independence Movements in Europe: The Catalan-Spanish Case

Mapping vote transition at the 2012 outset of the Catalan push for independence

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