Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Dinas Elias
    Left and Right in the Basque Country and Catalonia: The Meaning of Ideology in a Nationalist Context
    in South European Society & Politics , Volume 17, Issue 3, Special Issue: Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space. Guest edited by Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Elias Dinas, September ,  2012 ,  467-485
    Why are the Basques and Catalans the most left-wing societies in Europe? Treating peripheral nationalism and ideology as two orthogonal dimensions, the literature to date has not yet provided a systematic theoretical account of this pattern. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper explores how nationalism has marked the meaning of ideology in these regions. Contrary to the left, the right has been treated as the opponent of regional devolution. The findings highlight the need to revise the orthogonality assumption often made when employing these two dimensions in the study of public opinion in Catalonia and the Basque Country.
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