Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of
Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media …

Federalism is a very familiar form of government. It characterises the first modern constitution-
that of the United States-and has been deployed by constitution-makers to manage large …

The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state
encompassing it. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states. To explain why …

The Catalan parliament approved a declaration recognizing the sovereignty of the Catalan
people and the two main Catalan nationalist parties are Convergence and Union (CiU) and …

This article addresses the debate about the relative utility of accommodative federalism as a
method of conflict management in multinational states. Comparative scholarship on this …

El acceso de España y Portugal a la democracia marca el inicio de la denominada tercera
ola de democratización (Huntington, 1994) continuada, posteriormente, por los países de …

This paper reviews the most important characteristics and of the Spanish Intergovernmental
Councils (IGCs) and theorizes about the effect of the increasing fragmentation of the party …

Aquest llibre vol ajudar al lector a entendre i interpretar els esdeveniments polítics de la
història recent de Catalunya. El llibre també mostra que el procés té una pertinència política …

The 2012 demonstration is considered the beginning of the Catalan independence procés.
Social organisations managed to organise a historic turnout with overwhelming public …

Spain constitutes a prominent case of how strong institutional arrangements can favor party
system stabilization for a long period. However, the economic crisis and other additional …