Regionalists Against Secession: The Political Economy of Territory in Advanced Democracies

Sorens, Jason

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“…These analyses highlight the important fact that many parties do not want to break up the state, but to seek accommodation of territorial interests and identities within it. Arguably, this places them on a par with many regional branches of state-wide parties, such as the Catalan Socialist Party or the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP), which have sought greater autonomy for the region (Sorens, 2008;Hepburn, 2010). Moreover, there is large variation in the type of self-determination that parties seek, reinforcing the heterogeneity of this party family.…”

Section: An Evolving Party Familymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…By focusing on the autonomy goals of parties, the term avoids the normative connotations of 'ethnic'. Yet a small snag here is that many autonomy-supporting regional branches of state-wide parties, such as the Quebec Liberal Party or the Scottish Labour Party, could also be described as autonomist (Sorens, 2008), which potentially stretches the concept too far.…”

Section: An Evolving Party Familymentioning

confidence: 96%

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Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Sub-state Mobilization

Hepburn

2009

Regional & Federal Studies

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Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties (SNRPs) have moved from 'niche' actors in party systems to mainstream political players. No longer the 'outsider' in party politics, these parties have successfully entered government at the regional and state levels and many have been responsible for pushing the agenda for radical constitutional change. Yet the success of SNRPs in moving from 'protest to power' is not without its challenges. This contribution explores the importance of nationalist and regionalist party adaptation to the twin challenges of multi-level politics (i.e. operating at the regional, state and European levels) and a multi-dimensional policy space, whereby they must articulate policy proposals alongside their territorial demands. As a result of these challenges, there is a need to re-conceptualize what SNRPs are fighting for, and the compromises they are willing to accept to achieve success.

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Section: An Evolving Party Familymentioning

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Section: An Evolving Party Familymentioning

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Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Sub-state Mobilization

Hepburn

2009

Regional & Federal Studies

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“…So any ethnic mobilization and identity seeking efforts has been interpreted by the state and the majority as the attempts for secession. However, the concerns are not limited to the Iranian society; as Sorens (2008) asserts the demands by ethnic groups for self-determination usually create the concerns on tearing the states which they live in, thus many of the governments refuse it or respond to it by suppressive policies, which usually leads to civil wars.…”

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Ethnic Secessionism in Iran: Accusation or Fact

khorshidi¹,

Fee²,

Soltani³

2010

JPL

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During recent one hundred years, all Iranian governments accused the ethnic groups on the secessionist aims, but the ethnic groups rejected these accusations. Simultaneous to the increase in the ethnic conflicts in the period of hard-liners in the past five years (mostly in non-violent form), accusations were strengthened. Through analysing the data collected by certain in-depth interviews with the Iranian ethnic groups' elites; this article tends to verify the existence of secessionist aspires in the ethnic groups while they pursue their right of self-determination. Collected data emphasize that the ethnic groups have not pursued secessionist aims, and they seek their right on self-determination in the context of Iran. According to the data, almost the entire ethnic movements even two autonomists republic which were established in 1945-1946 in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan had no secessionist aims.

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“…More specifically, the smaller the region-specific upper bound of δ for which definition 1 is satisfied, the smaller the extent of nationalist feelings needed for the regional median voter to favor separation and the more secession-prone the corresponding region. One important remark is that capital regions are assumed inherently stable due to the additional rents they derive from their status as capital, which always outweigh any potential welfare gains of separation (Sorens, 2008). 18…”

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“…One novel feature is that regional independence movements increasingly utilize the electoral arena to posit their claims for more regional autonomy -or even secession -from the central government (Sorens, 2008).…”

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Regional (In)Stability in Europe: A Quantitative Model of State Fragmentation

Vanschoonbeek

2016

SSRN Journal

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Despite a rich theoretical literature on regional (in)stability, little is known about its empirical validity. This paper presents simulated experimental findings on spatial heterogeneity in regional (in)stability accross 264 regions belonging to 26 European countries. To do so, it develops a broad model of state fragmentation that reconciles the views of the dominant strands in the literature. In order to apply the model, a novel indicator of regional political distinctiveness is proposed, rooted in the discrepancy between regional and national electoral behavior. Calibrating our model to the current European situation, we find that Cataluña, Flanders and the Basque country are the regions currently most likely to break away. In line with these results, governments in all three regions have consistently vocalized demands for increased autonomy -or even secession -in recent years. Denmark, Hungary and Slovenia show up as the most secession-robust European countries.

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Regionalists Against Secession: The Political Economy of Territory in Advanced Democracies

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Sub-state Mobilization

Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Sub-state Mobilization

Ethnic Secessionism in Iran: Accusation or Fact

Regional (In)Stability in Europe: A Quantitative Model of State Fragmentation

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