Institutional plurality: A way out of the Basque conflict?
| Autor: | Hans van Amersfoort, Jan Mansvelt Beck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 26:449-467 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9451 1369-183X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/713680491 |
| Popis: | The aim of this article is to analyse the possibilities for a peaceful solution to the 'Basque question'. In particular, we will explore whether the concept of institutional plurality might be a suitable framework within which to identify a political solution to one of the most enduring and violent nationalistic conflicts in Western Europe. Institutional plurality is described in a previous article (Van Amersfoort 1995). Basically institutional plurality can be found in two forms in modern democracies, a territorial one and a non-territorial parallel organisation of basic institutions. Switzerland and the Netherlands are the classical examples of states in Western Europe with a high degree of institutional plurality; Switzerland in a territorial form, the Netherlands in a non-territorially defined form. Even a first general analysis of Basque nationalism makes clear that the Basque problem is very complicated. A territorial form of pluralism is (just as complete separatism) hampered by the geographical di... |
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