National identity and self‐government in Spain: The Galician case

Regionalists Against Secession: The Political Economy of Territory in Advanced Democracies

“…Three secessionist parties have moved to regionalism: Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE), which actually merged with the Basque branch of the PSOE (now PSE-EE) after the 1990 election; the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG), which moved from a moderate-secessionist position similar to the PNV (independence as a long-term goal) to a regionalist program that explicitly rejected independence after the 1989 election 49 ; and the ADQ, which supported sovereignty in the 1995 referendum but adopted an "autonomist" program at their 2004 conference. In the first case, the center-left EE had gradually been squeezed out of the political spectrum by the secession of Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) from the PNV.…”