The outcome of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU represents one of the
biggest blows to the European project since the founding of the then Common Market in …

Contesting European regions. Regional Studies. A regional or 'meso'-level of regulation and
policy-making has emerged in Europe. This cannot adequately be explained by functional …

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

Evidence indicates that populist attitudes matter for voting decisions, but findings are still
inconclusive about whether this happens regardless of individuals' positioning on more …

We study the long-term effects of intergroup contact on nation building by exploiting a
national lottery that randomly allocated conscripts to different military areas across Spain …

In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the use of quantitative
techniques in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, without, however, a sufficient amount of …

In Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity, and national
grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations of political parties and voters …

Can territorial disputes within countries be a basis for affective polarization? If so, how does
it vary across territories? A burgeoning literature on affective polarization has largely …

Wars can produce drastic changes in the attitudes and behavior of the citizens of the
countries involved in the fighting. Yet such conflicts also have important security and …

This paper explores the relationship between the economic turmoil generated by the Great
Recession and the increase of secessionism. Some authors have stressed that the Great …