Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism
            <i>from</i>
            and
            <i>within</i>
            the European Union

Sanjaume‐Calvet, Marc; Cetrà, Daniel; Franco‐Guillén, Núria

doi:10.1080/01402382.2023.2191104

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“…Now that the inconceivable has happened, a member reversing the trend for an ever-expanding union, one may also consider what this means for separatist movements inside member states like Spain and for associated members of the EU’s various integration schemes with its neighbours (Malet and Walter 2023 ; Sanjaume-Calvet et al. 2023 ). After all, Brexit has unleashed disintegrative dynamics within its own borders, by providing the Scottish independence movement with a new lease to life.…”

Section: Membership Crises That Might Bementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the last article under this theme, Sanjaume-Calvet et al. ( 2023 ) return to the issue of framing but instead zoom in on a comparative study of the Catalan campaign of secession and the Brexit Leave campaign. While they discover that superficially both campaigns evoke the theme of sovereignty and focus on political and social issues to frame it, they still differ significantly as the Leave campaign focused on retaking control from a bloated EU, whereas the Catalan campaign’s goal was self-determination but in a context of EU membership.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?

Schelkle,

Kyriazi,

Ganderson

et al. 2024

West European Politics

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This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK’s in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership crisis and maintain the EU polity. Yet, the issue contributors challenge the notion that the alarm was unfounded and explain why this counter-factual did not materialise, even though potential for future membership crises of different sorts was revealed. Theoretically, this supports an understanding of the EU as a polity that is fragile, yet able to assert porous borders, exercise authority over a diverse membership, and mobilise a modicum of loyalty when the entire integration regime is under threat.

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Section: Membership Crises That Might Bementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?

Schelkle,

Kyriazi,

Ganderson

et al. 2024

West European Politics

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Social costs and policy preferences: Evidence from territorial strategies in Catalonia

Balcells,

Kuo

2024

Nations and Nationalism

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Research on territorial preferences in self‐determination disputes has traditionally focused on economic and identity‐related factors. However, the impact of social costs—encompassing overall societal comfort and conviviality—on specific preferences for territorial strategies remains understudied. This paper presents a novel perspective by investigating how social costs affect such policy preferences in Catalonia, a region in Spain where secession has become a politically salient and defining feature of the political debate in recent decades. Through embedded experiments conducted within regionally representative online surveys over two time periods, we examine the relationship between social costs and preferences for territorial strategies. Our theoretical framework and empirical findings underscore the importance of considering social costs as a determinant of policy preferences, warranting further cross‐national exploration—beyond territorial debates.

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Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union

Cited by 2 publications

References 77 publications

Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?

Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?

Social costs and policy preferences: Evidence from territorial strategies in Catalonia

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