Federalization and ethnoterritorial concurrence in Spain

• Autores: Luis Moreno Fernández
• Localización: Documentos de trabajo ( CSIC. Unidad de Políticas Comparadas ), Nº. 6, 1996
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The progressive federalization of the Spanish Estado de las Autonomías ('State of Autonomies') is in accordance with a model of multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence. The process of territorial accommodation in Spain relates sub-state ethnic mobilisation with the competitive interplay among Spanish regions and nationalities in pursuit of political and economic power. They also strive for the achievement of legitimisation for their institutional development. This article reviews developments and features which have set the type of plural competition and solidarity put into play in Spain at the turn of the millennium.