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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà +3 more
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic‐ and language‐based nationalism, thus being linked to negative views. We examine citizens who identify with both a minority nation and a nation state.
Victoria Finn +2 more
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
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The economics of secession: a review of legal, theoretical, and empirical aspects
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2018 The aim of this paper is to present a review of the legal, theoretical, and empirical aspects of secessions from an economic perspective. This survey provides interesting insights into recent events such as the Brexit and the threat of secession made for
T. Madiès +3 more
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War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals.
Yingyi Lin, Emily Smith‐Greenaway
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Las Torres de Lucca, 2021 The book Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession edited by professors Ryan D. Grifiths and Diego Muro is a major and necessary contribution to the study of secessionism.
Marc Sanjaume-Calvet
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The Right to Secession: Remedial or Primary?
Ethnopolitics, 2018 The Scottish referendum, and the Kurdish and Catalan endeavours to organise unilateral independence referenda has made secession, once again, a prominent political issue.
Nicolás Brando, Sergi Morales-Gálvez
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Prior literature on fertility during war examines high‐fertility settings using quantitative data on births collected mainly after fighting ends. In contrast, we analyze cognitive processes related to childbearing during wartime in Ukraine, where a full‐scale war erupted in the context of long‐standing low fertility.
Anna Popovych +2 more
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