The symbolic state : minority recognition, majority backlash, and secession in multinational countries / Karlo Basta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basta, Karlo, 1976- author.

Series:

Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement

Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement ; v.7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative government.

Multinational states.

Nationalism.

Secession.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Through a synoptic historical sweep of Canada, Spain, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, The Symbolic State shows us that institutions may be more important for what they mean than for what they do. This book is timely in an era when the power of symbols - Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency, the Black Lives Matter movement - is shaping global politics.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

1 In Search of Theories of the Multinational State

2 Theoretical Bottlenecks

3 Decentralization, Symbolic Recognition, and Secessionist Crises

4 Canada and Quebec from the Quiet Revolution to the 1995 Referendum

5 Spain and Catalonia from the Transition to the 2017 Secession Crisis

6 Yugoslavia and Croatia fromthe Re-emergence of the National Question to the Break-Up

7 Czechoslovakia from the Velvet Revolution to the Velvet Divorce

8 The Multinational State and the Analytic Imagination

Appendix

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Basta, Karlo The Symbolic State

ISBN:

9780228009214

0228009219

9780228009207

0228009200

OCLC:

1256665170