Catalan Election
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Catalonia; the quest for understanding
The key to understanding the 2017 Catalan election is to be found in another vote that took place two years earlier and, says Luis Moreno, a realization that Catalan politics is polarized.
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The curse of polarised politics in Catalonia
As politics in Catalonia becomes increasingly polarised over territorial concerns, finds Sandra León, those parties and policies that don't speak to the issues of sovereignty and relations with
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What next for Catalonia?
In the light of the Catalan results both Madrid and Barcelona have some options, says Michael Keating, but the current political climate is unlikely to see an immediate breakthrough.
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A clear mandate but an uncertain path towards Catalan sovereignty
The 2015 election in Catalonia has provided a clear mandate for the pro-secessionist movement but, argues Marc Sanjaume, there is no obvious institutional means to deliver it.
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The Catalan Election in Numbers
Although the overall levels of support for and against independence barely changed in the Catalan election, says Robert Liñeira, there have been sizable shifts within each bloc.
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Catalonia: Any time left for a consensual way out?
The Catalan people have delivered their verdict but, says Prof Josep Valles, creating political space to translate that into meaningful action will prove difficult.
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Catalonia and Spain: Options for the Future
In a final, extended blog, Josep Valles considers the option for the future relationship between Catalonia and the Kingdom of Spain in the build up to September’s election.
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More than a Local Crisis
The changing situation in Catalonia needs to be understood again a context that includes a crisis of legitimacy in the Spanish political system more generally and a changing sense of scale in
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The search for a stable territorial model
The current impasse playing out in the forthcoming election has been long in the making, says Joseph Valles, and recent actions by the Spanish government, the media and the Constitutional Cou
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Catalonia and Spain: Conflicting Majorities
In the first blog of a four-part series, Prof Josep Vallés considers how public attitudes across Spain towards levels of self-government have created a structural tension in Spanish democracy