Resumen de Does the secession movement in Catalonia provoke misbehavior in social activities?

Cornel Nesseler, Carlos Gómez González, Julio del Corral Cuervo

• In October 2017 Catalan citizens were asked to participate in a referendum to decide whether to secede from Spain. The Spanish government did not recognize the referendum a priori. During and after the referendum confrontation between protesters and police forces erupted. This article examines whether the political conflict in Catalonia had an influence on the social behavior of Catalan citizens. The results show that misconducts between the different groups (pro- and against- independence) did neither increase nor decrease before and after the referendum. Even groups that come from starkly different political contexts did not change their behavior towards each other. The results contradict the political notion in Spain that the Catalan secessionist movement has brought confrontation to other daily activities, e.g., leisure. To measure social behavior, we use code violations (misconducts) data from amateur football in Catalonia.