Regional and national identities are significant determinants of people's support for
secession. Most previous works, however, have implicitly assumed that national identity has …

In this research note we delve into the Linz-Moreno question—one of the most employed
measures of national and regional identity in political science—by analzsing three different …

This article explores party strategies in electoral competition in Catalonia in order to test the
existence of ethnic outbidding (;). We contribute with original findings on this case by …

Referendums on independence in liberal democracies are rare, even more so when held
without the agreement of the central government. On 1 October 2017, a referendum on …

Following an ambiguous constitutional compromise for democratization, the territorial
decentralization of the Spanish state developed by means of political party competition …

This chapter analyses the factors behind the increasing support for secession in Catalonia,
focuses on political actors' and citizens' actions over the last years. It focuses on some of the …

Focusing on public opinion, this paper studies the politics of fiscal federalism by analysing
support for the level and conditionality of intergovernmental transfers for healthcare …

Independence movements are today present in several stateless territorially concentrated
nations, irrespective of their level of self-government. Among advanced industrial …

A collective regional identity is a favourable condition for the acceptance of majority
decisions made at the regional level and for the delegation of competencies from the central …

In devolved contexts, people may get it wrong in their responsibility assignments because
they are unsure about who does what or because they filter their attributions of credit and …