| Nationalism and Self-Government: The Politics of Autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia Contributor(s): Greer, Scott L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791470474 ISBN-13: 9780791470473 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Examines the nature of nationalist mobilization in Scotland and Catalonia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - Political Science | Comparative Politics - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 320.941 |
| LCCN: 2006021933 |
| Series: Suny Series in National Identities |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.45" W x 9.28" (0.98 lbs) 234 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scottish - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scotland and Catalonia, both ancient nations with strong nationalisms within larger states, are exemplars of the management of ethnic conflict in multinational democracies and of global trends toward regional government. Focusing on these two countries, Scott L. Greer explores why nationalist mobilization arose when it did and why it stopped at autonomy rather than statehood. He challenges the notion that national identity or institutional design explains their relative success as stable multinational democracies and argues that the key is their strong regional societies and their regional organizations' preferences for autonomy and environmental stability |