Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy(English, Hardcover, Lecours Andre)

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Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy(English, Hardcover, Lecours Andre) is written by Lecours Andre and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0192846752 (ISBN 10) and 9780192846754 (ISBN 13).

The strength of secessionism in liberal-democracies varies in time and space. Inspired by historical institutionalism, Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy argues that such variation is explained by the extent to which autonomy evolves in time. If autonomy adjusts to the changing identity, interests, and circumstances of an internal national community, nationalism is much less likely to be strongly secessionist than if autonomy is a final, unchangeable settlement. Developing a controlled comparison of, on the one hand, Catalonia and Scotland, where autonomy has been mostly static during key periods of time, and, on the other hand, Flanders and South Tyrol, where it has been dynamic, and also considering the Basque Country, Quebec, and Puerto Rico as additional cases, this book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal-democracies: dynamic autonomy staves off secessionism while static autonomy stimulates it.