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Secessionism and non-secessionism in substate national movements -- Accounting for the internal variation in substate national movements -- Evolution within the Catalan national movement between 1976 and 2010 : the rise of independentist nationalism -- Evolution within the Québécois national movement between 1976 and 2010 : the rise of autonomist nationalism -- Shatdes of nationhood and the national consciousness of substate nationalists -- Elites, militants, and ideology : national parties and national consciousness -- Sovereignty and procedure : the ideology of independentist substate nationalism -- Fragments of sovereignty : the ideology of autonomist substate nationalism -- Shared sovereignty : the ideology of federalist substate nationalism -- The discourse and attitudes of substate nationalists -- The moral polity of the stateless nationalist -- Substate nationalism and its accommodation in multinational democracies

Introduction : the multiple dimensions of the politics of accommodation in multinational democracies / Jaime Lluch -- Varieties of territorial pluralism : prospects for the constitutional and political accommodation of Puerto Rico in the USA / Jaime Lluch -- (Mis)recognition in Catalunya and Quebec : the politics of judicial containment / François Rocher and Elisenda Casas Adam -- The limits of constitutionalism : politics, economics, and secessionism in Catalonia (2006-2013) / Hector Lopez Bofill -- The accommodation of island autonomies in multinational states / Eve Hepburn -- From autonomism to independentism : the growth of secessionism in Catalonia (2010-2013) / Jordi Argelaguet -- The multilevel politics of accommodation and the non-constitutional moment : lessons from Corsica / André Fazi -- Flexible accommodation : another case of British exceptionalism? / Stephen Tierney -- Italy : autonomism, decentralization, federalism, or what else? / Francesco Palermo and Alice Valdesalici -- Autonomous areas as a constitutional feature in China and Finland / Markku Suksi

This collection presents a nuanced analysis of a wide variety of cases that cover the spectrum of constitutional strategies of accommodation used by multinational states such as Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of national diversity, there is a need to bridge comparative politics and comparative constitutional law. The notion of accommodation in plurinational polities needs to be unpacked and disaggregated, and all of its multiple dimensions analyzed, in order to integrate comparative politics and comparative constitutional law into the analysis. The essays in the book explore three fundamental dimensions of the politics of accommodation: constitutionalism, political culture, and nationalism. Adopting a syncretistic approach to the multiple dimensions of the politics of accommodation, this collection opens up new intellectual vistas, and provides the reader with an appreciation of the contribution that political science perspectives can make to law, and how law and jurisprudence can enrich the study of politics.

This article aims to understand autonomism as an ideology of territorial order and institutional design. In particular, I ask whether the theory and practice of autonomism is consonant with federalist principles. "Autonomism" is a normative term that advocates the use of autonomist principles, and it has an intricate relationship with federalism, but is generally distinct from it. Autonomists are wary of federalism because they believe it has homogenizing and uniformizing tendencies. Autonomism as an ideology of territorial order and institutional design exhibits a number of clear anti-federalist stances, but yet it is based on the general federalist principle that multiple levels of government can lead to better governance in multinational states. To this complex anti-federalist and federalist hybrid stance, autonomism adds a nuanced anti-secessionism stance. Adapted from the source document.

Variation in secessionism among sub-state nationalists is part of one of the great puzzles of ethnic politics. Sub-state national movements tend to bifurcate and, at times, trifurcate, into two or three basic nationalist orientations: independentist nationalism, autonomist nationalism (and its sub-variants), and federalist nationalism (and its sub-variants). There is a dearth of systematic comparative research into the sources and patterns of internal variation in the political orientations of sub-state national movements. This article investigates why some sub-state nationalists opt for a secessionist orientation while other nationalists within the same national movement opt for a variety of non-secessionist orientations. I use evidence gathered in Quebec and Catalonia, consisting of 42 interviews among the top leadership of the eight national parties of these societies, 15 focus group interviews with party militants, and 370 questionnaires answered by militants, etc. The national consciousness and materialist approaches fail to elucidate these issues. Instead, sub-state nationalists have expectations about what is fair treatment by the central state, and notions about what obligations emerge due to common membership in a plurinational state. Independentists and strong decentralizers (strong autonomists and radical asymmetric federalists) opt for their chosen orientations because they perceive that central state institutions are unable to promote an ethos of plurinational reciprocity and are aggrieved by state nationalism, while less-decentralizing nationalists (weak autonomists and traditional federalists) assert that the central state is capable of accommodation and reciprocity and have no grievances about state nationalism.

The national movements of sub-state national societies are divided into two or three competing political orientations (independentists, autonomists, and federalists), which vary over time. This article compares the process that led to the founding of the ADQ (autonomism) in Quebec, with the process that culminated in the transformation and de facto re-founding of ERC (independentism) in Catalonia during the period 1976–2005. Using the cases of two nationalist parties in two different national movements that have successfully established new political orientations, I analyze the political origins of this form of temporal variation. My outcome variable is the "tipping point" at which these nationalist political parties get established. This "tipping point" was reached through a temporal sequence that evolved in four phases. In each of these phases, a key variable was involved: the existence of a preexistent ideology, the occurrence of a central state constitutional moment, an impulse from the sphere of sociological nationalism, and the consolidation of a new leadership nucleus.