Bulletin n. 2/2015
September 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Enric Ucelay-Da Cal
    Catalan Nationalism, 1886-2012: An Historical Overview
    in Pôle Sud , 2014/1 (n° 40) ,  2014
    From 1886 to 2012, the dominant trends of Catalan nationalism have been (1) a common consensus of nationalist eclecticism, usually termed “Catalanism”; (2) the primacy of electoral politics during this time period; and (3) the fact that electoral parties, using the ambiguity of “Catalanism”, had to operate side by side with non-ambiguous nationalists, explicit in their objective of subversion to a Spanish State, and willing to use force, at least in theory. Although the paramilitaries never had the social weight to act in electoral terms, their capacity to pressure through ideology was significant. Since 2012, however, the open expression of pro-independence sympathies ostensibly became a majority sentiment in Catalan society, creating an upset, and a new trend towards mass street politics, oriented or managed by loose “assembly”-type platforms.
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