The 2015 general election marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain
since the restoration of democracy. Two new parties,'Podemos' and 'Ciudadanos', entered …

The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary
people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not …

This article analyses the 2019 local, regional, European and April general elections in
Spain. The constitutional crisis in Catalonia in 2017, the motion of no-confidence leading to …

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

As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as
exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role …

This article focuses on the role played by polarisation in the Spanish party system. It first
analyses the failure in the attempts to form a government after the 28 April 2019 general …

The 2016 general election was the result of the incapacity of Spanish political parties to
agree on the formation of a government following the previous parliamentary election six …

The traditional Spanish imperfect bipartisanship and the alternation in power that emerged
in the early 80s between the center-left PSOE and the conservative PP have shifted towards …

In Catalonia and beyond, the recent upheaval of secessionist mobilizations has challenged
not only extant territorial frameworks and integration processes but also one's …

This article seeks to understand the trajectory of radicalization in the Catalan 'procés'.
Regardless of their formal legal standing, referendum campaigns are distinct political …