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
    • Strijbis, Oliver - Leonisio, Rafael
    Political Cleavages in the Basque Country: Meaning and Salience
    in Regional and Federal Studies , volume 22 n.5 ,  2012 ,  595-612
    The Basque party system has typically been described as organized along two cross-cutting cleavages: a nationalist struggle and a less salient class conflict. While there is consensus on the nature of the nationalist division, what remains of the historical class cleavage is unclear. Two competing hypotheses on the nature of the class cleavage are put forward: the class cleavage has realigned along the new social classes of post-industrial society, and the class cleavage is best understood as a frozen cleavage. It is shown that the freezing hypothesis best captures the nature of the class cleavage in the Basque Country today, and that once left and right are understood along these lines, the nationalist cleavage becomes more salient.
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