Sovereigntists and Associationists: Explaining the Origins of National Movements’ Political Orientation

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This article seeks to explain why certain substate national movements tend to develop as “association-seeking” national movements, while others develop a “sovereignty-seeking” orientation. An association-seeking national movement is a national movement that has developed a strong autonomist or federalist orientation. I illuminate the causal mechanisms that help to explain across-case variation in national movements’ political orientation by contrasting the origins of the associationist tendency of the Puerto Rican (1930s-1950s) and Catalan (late 19th century-1936) national movements with the origins of the sovereigntist tendency of the Québécois (1960-1980) and the Basque (late 19th century-1936) ones. Substate national movements tend to develop as association-seeking movements if they are framed by a mode of development that creates structural incentives for maintaining close political and economic ties with the central state. Sovereignty-seeking national movements tend to occur if a mode of development has resulted in displacement or dislocation, and the substate nationalists perceive that this poses a threat to the national or cultural integrity of their society.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2010.526917