In this paper, the author sketches a relational approach that regards secession as the
political upgrading of a self-governing territory within a multilevel constellation of polities …

The article compares how secessionist elites in Scotland and Catalonia discursely and
legally constituted the people that is the subject of their claim of self-determination in relation …

What is the value of using referendums as part of independence movements? By
considering recent prominent secession movements, this article theorizes that referendums …

The idea of the nation-state was invented in Europe upon agreeing to the principle of fixed
territorial integrity and sovereignty in the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. In the meantime, the …

The Spanish nation‐state is gradually being rescaled by Catalonia's “secession crisis.”
Recently and dramatically, in the aftermath of the “illegal” and “constitutive referendum” that …

Abstract This Special Issue explores the consequences of past and ongoing processes of
territorial rescaling on citizenship in a theoretical and comparative perspective. In this …

The doctrine of self-determination has been problematic because of the difficulties in
specifying the subject, which is classically the nation or people and the object, which is …

The present study focuses on the use of the local referendum instrument in the Czech
Republic between 2000 and 2020. This form of citizen participation in political decision …

Previous literature explains the fact that sub-national elections tend to be more inclusive
than national elections by reference to the level of the election. This paper argues that the …

Vinohradníctvo v Nitrianskom kraji má dlhodobú tradíciu a predstavuje určitý prínos pre
ekonomický rozvoj kraja. Viac ako 45% výmery viníc Slovenska sa nachádza v Nitrianskom …