This article explores the ideological controversies around Spanish liberalism through the
story of the Citizens party–from its rise in 2006 through 2023, after a sequence of electoral …

Since its irruption in Spanish public institutions in 2018, a new right-wing political party, Vox,
has challenged the electoral spectrum of other parties under a nationalist form. This work …

Following the Spanish municipal elections on 28 May 2023, the conservative party Partido
Popular (PP) and the far-right group VOX reached an agreement to govern the Valencian …

Abstract Language public policy is a key issue in Galician politics. Its symbolic uses have
proven to be a powerful political resource in partisan competition. This article analyzes the …

Keeping this issue alive helps nationalist parties to distinguish themselves from the Spain-
wide parties that dominate elections outside the Basque Country.[...] stressing Basque …

This chapter deals with Spanish populist discourse by analyzing parliamentary speech of
Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the political party Podemos. In the context of economic crisis …

From a critical sociolinguistics perspective, this article discusses the (non) thematization of
languages and the language ideologies in the political programs, seen as situated …

In this dissertation, we examine the politics of language and nation in the context of
contemporary Catalonia. We begin by creating a map of the social bases of support for …

This chapter maps the competing political arguments over language in Catalonia and
Flanders in relation to the academic debate around liberalism and nationalism using the …

Pro-independence parties won a narrow majority of parliamentary seats in the December
2017 elections in Catalonia. Should Catalonia at some point become independent from …