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A contribution to the study of the history and architecture of the 'Rosija' Insurance Company building in Belgrade (1904-1908) [PDF]

open access: yesNasleđe
At the beginning of the 20th century, an ambitious project for the construction of the palace of the 'Rosija' ('Russia') Insurance Company was realized along Terazije, one of the most important transects within Belgrade's urban fabric.
Andrić Dunja, Kiproski Sanja
doaj   +1 more source

Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Spanish vision of Canada’s Clarity Act: from idealization to myth

open access: yesPerspectives on Federalism, 2017
Since it was passed, the Clarity Act has been at the core of any secessionist debate in Canada and abroad. Although contested at home, the Clarity Act has earned worldwide prestige as the democratic standard that must be observed when a secessionist ...
Caro Francisco Javier Romero
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Theory of `Internal Exit', a comment on Buchanan and Faith (1987) [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this note is to correct an error in the seminal article on secession by Buchanan and Faith (1987). In their paper, Buchanan and Faith neglected an important effect: political separation affects markets and consequently individual private ...
Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI
core   +2 more sources

Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

Secession from a Member State and EU Membership: the View from the Union

open access: yes, 2016
Arguments in favour of a more explicit and clearer EU stance on secession from a member state – two different cases for secession and their implications – the inadmissibility of unilateral secession within the EU – consensual secession does not create a ...
Closa Montero, Carlos
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National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Art of Making Everybody Happy: How to Prevent a Secession [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we examine compensation schemes that prevent a threat of secession by any of a country's regions. We prove that, under quite general assumptions on the distribution of citizens' preferences, there exist transfer schemes that are secession ...
Shlomo Weber, Michel Le Breton
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