Scotland and Catalonia: the Path to Home Rule
Scotland and Catalonia share a somewhat similar configuration as substate peripheral nations with analogous perceptions, interpretations and aspirations for home rule within their respective British and Spanish frameworks. Nevertheless, Scotland and Catalonia have not followed parallel processes ove...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1988 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/174211 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/174211 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Scotland Catalonia Autonomy |
| Sumario: | Scotland and Catalonia share a somewhat similar configuration as substate peripheral nations with analogous perceptions, interpretations and aspirations for home rule within their respective British and Spanish frameworks. Nevertheless, Scotland and Catalonia have not followed parallel processes over the last decades, as far as the achievement of institutional forms of self-government is concerned(!). The nationality of Catalonia at present enjoys a great degree of political autonomy within the quasi-federal Spanish Estado de las Autonomias. On the contrary, and although in Scotland there is a wide constellation of political and social forces favouring Scottish home rule, the task of translating this common concern into action has proved in the last years to be extraordinarily difficult. It will be contended later on in this article than an inter-party political convention is the desirable option for the achievement of self-government in Scotland, although a change in the traditional political pattern of selfinterest and party competition characteristic of British politics is required to achieve such a goal. |
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