Secessionism and non-secessionism in substate national movements -- Accounting for the internal variation in substate national movements -- Evolution within the Catalan national movement between 1976 and 2010 : the rise of independentist nationalism -- Evolution within the Québécois national movement between 1976 and 2010 : the rise of autonomist nationalism -- Shatdes of nationhood and the national consciousness of substate nationalists -- Elites, militants, and ideology : national parties and national consciousness -- Sovereignty and procedure : the ideology of independentist substate nationalism -- Fragments of sovereignty : the ideology of autonomist substate nationalism -- Shared sovereignty : the ideology of federalist substate nationalism -- The discourse and attitudes of substate nationalists -- The moral polity of the stateless nationalist -- Substate nationalism and its accommodation in multinational democracies
Summary
Visions of Sovereignty provides a deep analysis of political activity within the Québécois and Catalonian national movements from a comparative perspective. This interdisciplinary study examines why some nationalists take a secessionist stance while others within the same movement chose nonsecessionist approaches toward greater self-rule
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index
