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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 role of parliaments in secession referendums: Canadian doctrine and consensus democracy in designing decision-making process [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals
This article analyses the doctrine of the Supreme Court of Canada in its opinion on the secession of Quebec, as a key reference for the democratic management of territorial conflicts.
Elia Marzal Yetano
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

Architectural Analysis of the First Major Rehabilitation in the 21st Century of Olbrich’s Secession Building in Vienna

open access: yesBuildings
The recent rehabilitation, reconstruction and adaptive reuse of Joseph Maria Olbrich’s Vienna Secession Building, completed in 2018, has brought the building into a contemporary age.
Biljana Arandelovic
doaj   +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 ...
Michel Le Breton, Shlomo Weber
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Governor Wise\u27s War: My Misconception (Part 1) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
I worked in the living history branch at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park for three years, wearing old timey clothing and talking to visitors about the meanings of John Brown.
Rudy, John M.
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa

open access: yesOxford 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
wiley   +1 more source

STAGNATION OF THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE QUESTION [PDF]

open access: yesНаучно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
The article examines the causes of the political impasse facing the Scottish independence movement in 2024–2025. The authors offer a novel explanation for the persistence of independence demands despite the weakening of the Scottish National Party (SNP),
Elena V. Khakhalkina, Timofei R. Lesnykh
doaj   +1 more source

Idealism and materialism in antebellum southern political history : a review essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
Although the mainstream "new political historians" have largely ignored the South, historians of the antebellum South have produced some of the most interesting recent works in political history.
Kousser, J. Morgan
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