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A constitutional crisis took place in Spain from 2017 to 2018 as the result of a political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya under the then-President Carles Puigdemont—the government of the autonomous community of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence.
A constitutional crisis took place in Spain from 2017 to 2018 as the result of a political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya under the then-President Carles Puigdemont—the government of the autonomous community of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence.
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May 11, 2021 · The findings have broader implications for the study of nationalist politics: they show that the commitment to early decisions mediated by the existence of strong political incentives against compromise may lead to the escalation of territorial conflicts. KEYWORDS: Catalonia. Escalation of Commitment.
- Carles Ferreira
- 2021
Dec 22, 2022 · Spain was plunged into an unprecedented constitutional crisis this month after judges blocked a law for the first time since the return of democracy. This young democracy was facing its first...
- Graham Keeley
- Abstract
- Introduction
- How The Bus Tried to Exit Via The ‘Enlarged Autonomy’ Route and How This Failed
- How The Bus Tried to Change Direction: The Independentist Turn
- How The Bus Collided with The Road Block and Was Driven Back to The Roundabout
- How The Bus Is Going Round and Round
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
This contribution describes how a Catalan bid for more autonomy and for national recognition miscarried in 2010 after long negotiations. In this process, the major part of Catalan nationalism turned towards independence. We follow the different steps that led to the show-down in October 2017, with the failed declaration of independence and the temp...
At the time of writing (November 2019), Catalonia may be compared to a bus. The vehicle moves round and round at changing, sometimes vertiginous speed, in a constitutional roundabout which it cannot leave (Nagel 2018). It arrived at this roundabout via the road of autonomy, but it now insistently indicates toward the exit marked sovereignty, by a r...
In 2003, a three party coalition led by the socialists were elected to take over the Catalan government after 23 years of autonomist Jordi Pujol and his Convergència party. Surprisingly, the Spanish socialists (PSOE) also won the Spanish elections of 2004. A “federalist spring” seemed possible (Nagel 2005). Spanish socialist leader Rodríguez Zapate...
In the main nationalist parties, Convergència and Esquerra, young radicals started to challenge the established leaders, and their new terminology of a “right to decide” became popular. In addition, political initiative, passed from parties to the civil society. In September 2009, in the small town of Arenys de Munt, independentists organized a loc...
In March 2015, Convergència, Esquerra, ANC, OC and the association of municipalities for independence designed the road-map that would lead the Catalan bus to independence. In September, they agreed on a common list which under the name of Junts pel Sí (JxSI; together for yes) united candidates from these and other organizations and parties. In the...
The parties that had voted to apply art 155 had hoped in vain that the prescribed elections on December 21, 2017, would render a non-independentist majority. Many important independentist candidates could only take part in the campaign from exile, via skype, or practically could not at all, as they were in jail. But all independentist parties accep...
Máiz, R. – Losada, A., 2011, „The Erosion of Regional Powers in the Spanish ‚State of Autonomies‘, in Requejo, F. – Nagel, KJ. (eds.), Federalism Beyond Federations. Asymmetry and Processes of Resymmetrisation in Europe, Abingdon,Ashgate, 2011: 81-107 Medina, L. – Liñeira, R. – Freixanet, M., 2013, “Vot i camvi. Una estimació dels fluxos de vot a l...
Nagel, KJ. – Rixen, S. (eds) 2015, Catalonia in Spain and Europe. Is There a Way to Independence?, Baden-Baden, Nomos
Feb 22, 2018 · February 22, 2018. academic law, Author Articles, comparative law, Constitutional and Administrative Law. Vito Breda discusses the current system of governance in the Spanish Constitution. The Spanish Constitutional system is defined by extremes.
The 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis, also known as the Catalan crisis, was a political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya under former President Carles Puigdemont—the government of the autonomous community of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence.
