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Date

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Location

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"Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy"

Date

Thursday March 2, 2023
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity and the Department of Political Studies Present:

Andr茅 Lecours - University of Ottawa

"Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy"

Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM

Dunning Hall Room 11, 94 University Avenue, Kingston

Light refreshments will be served!

Abstract: The strength of secessionism in liberal-democracies varies in time and space. Inspired by historical institutionalism, Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy argues that such variation is explained by the extent to which autonomy evolves in time. If autonomy adjusts to the changing identity, interests, and circumstances of an internal national community, nationalism is much less likely to be strongly secessionist than if autonomy is a final, unchangeable settlement. Developing a controlled comparison of, on the one hand, Catalonia and Scotland, where autonomy has been mostly static during key periods of time, and, on the other hand, Flanders and South Tyrol, where it has been dynamic, and also considering the Basque Country, Qu茅bec, and Puerto Rico as additional cases, this book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal-democracies: dynamic autonomy staves off secessionism while static autonomy stimulates it.

Biography: Andr茅 Lecours is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests are Canadian politics, European politics, nationalism (with a focus on Quebec, Scotland, Flanders, Catalonia, and the Basque country) and federalism.  He is the author of Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy (Oxford University Press, 2021), Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007), and the co-author (with Daniel B茅land) of Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008).  He is the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 2005).

Political Studies in the News - January 9, 2023

In this Political Science Quarterly article, co-authors Jennie L. Schulze and Ognen Vangelov, with Professor David Haglund trace the remarkable trajectory of post-Communist Hungary over the past three decades, when the onetime 鈥減oster country鈥 for successful liberalization in the erstwhile Soviet bloc managed to turn into the leading champion of illiberalism in the entire European Union (EU). They argue that a combination of internal and exogenous factors vitiated the earlier promise of EU 鈥渃onditionality鈥 to bring about Hungary鈥檚 transition to a stable liberal democracy.