Karlo Basta, "The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
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Catalonia, Galecia, and the Territorial Decentralization Model
Politicians in 19 78 wanted to give catalonia de bas country and galecia a territorial autonomy that was distinctive from any kind of territorial autonomy that could be given to any other part of the country. This would constitute a meaningful recognition of the fact that these are distinctive national communities, he says. But on the flips side, people who consider themselves to be spaniards say this kind of symmetry is problematic because it belies their understanding that all spaniards within the boundaries of the spanish state are members of the same political community,. So it's a clash of different kinds of institutional visions.
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