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Title: | Some Comments on Territorial Conflicts and Economic Issues: The Catalonia-Spain Case |
Author: | Castells, Antoni (Castells Oliveres) |
Keywords: | Federalisme Política governamental Política econòmica Catalunya Espanya Federalism Government policy Economic policy Catalonia Spain |
Issue Date: | Dec-2017 |
Publisher: | Il Mulino |
Abstract: | Financial issues are very often behind political conflicts between or within territories. However, conflicts are not limited to the territorial allocation of resources. Three factors appear to have a decisive influence: the distribution of political power between the central and the territorial government (federal/unitary model); the economic conception of the territory prevailing in central institutions (multipolar/radial conception); and the degree of territorial diversity and the existence of «national» minorities. The analysis of the Catalan- Spanish conflict along these three dimensions allows us to reach some preliminary conclusions, which should be tested by further empirical work. The first conclusion is that - when markedly opposite preferences exist between territories concerning the issue of more or less decentralization - the only stable agreement is some kind of specific settlement with this specific territory. The second conclusion is that a federal model appears to be intrinsically incompatible with a radial, centre-based conception of the country. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1429/88459 |
It is part of: | Journal of Economic Policy, 2017, vol. 203, num. dicembre, p. 289-304 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/122933 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1429/88459 |
ISSN: | 1120-9496 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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