http://hdl.handle.net/2072/1784 http://www.recercat.net/retrieve/4283 http://hdl.handle.net/2072/1784 Search the Channel s http://www.recercat.net/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2072/43036 title: Secession and liberal democracy. The case of the Basque country authors: Requejo Coll, Ferran; Sanjaume Calvet, Marc <br>abstract: The academic debate about the secession of a territory which is part of a liberal democracy state displays an initial contrast. On the one hand, practical secessionist movements usually legitimize their position using nationalist arguments linked to the principle of national self- determination. On the other hand, we find in academia few defenders of a normative principle of national self-determination. Philosophers, political scientists and jurists usually defend the status quo. And even when they do not defend it, most of them tend to leave the question of that question and secession unresolved or confused. Regarding this issue, liberal-democratic theories show a tendency to be “conservative” in relation to the political borders, regardless the historical and empirical processes of creation of current States. Probably, this feature is not far away to the fact that, since its beginning, political liberalism has not been a theory of the nation, but a theory of the state. <br> Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:07:01 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2072/42922 title: The Nationalism of stateless nations and Europe. The Catalan case authors: Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen <br>abstract: This paper analyzes how the ideas and concepts of Europe have developed in Catalonia, under the conditions of a decentralizing “nation-state” (Spain) on one hand, and the European integration process on the other. It analyzes the programmes, manifestations of political leaders, and political actions of the Catalan political parties, specially the nationalists, from the setting up of the Spanish state of autonomies (1977-1982) until today. The paper tries to show how, in multilevel governance, holistic and enthusiastic visions of an economically and political integrating Europe as a “natural ally” of a Catalan nationalism were partially replaced by more pragmatic and even more critical assessments. <br> Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:23 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2072/42108 title: Three theories of liberalism for the three theories of federalism. A Hegelian turn authors: Requejo Coll, Ferran <br>abstract: This paper links different political liberal theories, considered from the perspective of their moral ontology, with federal democracies. After giving a brief description of these theories, I discuss their relationship with the theoretical and institutional models of federalism. As methodological tools, the paper introduces some Hegel’s political concepts and deals with their potential application to the analysis of federalism, taken into account the case of minorities in multinational democracies. I postulate the need for a moral and institutional refinement of liberal-democratic patterns that is better able to accommodate national pluralism than has so far been achieved by traditional constitutionalism. <br> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18:07 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2072/42107 title: Revealing the dark side of traditional democracies in plurinational societies. The case of Catalonia and the Spanish “Estado de las Autonomías” authors: Requejo Coll, Ferran <br>abstract: In this article, I firstly offer a synthesis of a brief set of analytical elements of the theory of democracy and federalism established in the recent debate which identify a number of flaws in the normative and institutional bases of plurinational democracies. It is necessary to overcome these flaws in order to achieve a true political and constitutional recognition and accommodation of the national pluralism of this kind of liberal democracies (section 1). Secondly, we will focus on the Spanish case of the “Estado de las Autonomías” taking into account the recent reform of the Catalan constitutional law (Estatut d’autonomia 2006) (section 2). A final section makes a number of concluding remarks relating the previously highlighted elements of the theory of democracy and federalism with the analysis of the Catalan case (section 3). <br> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:17:17 GMT