The Comparative Study of Autonomy and Independence Movements: The Analysis of Political and Economic Valuables
| Autor: | Pei-Yu Liao, 廖倍妤 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 Historically, in the case of an area seeking for independence or expansion of autonomy in a country, the situation is mostly that the certain region is dissatisfied with the treatment of the central government, and therefore has a desire to achieve a higher degree of autonomy or even the rights of governance. In the process of seeking independence or expansion of autonomy, violent conflicts between the central government and local government are sometimes difficult to avoid, and there have been specific cases in both democratic or nondemocratic countries. But it is interesting that not all central governments respond to local-initiated independence movement or the expansion of autonomy with oppression, and not all central governments respond in a peaceful or respectful manner. In view of this, the question that this thesis wants to explore is: in the case of a region seeks for greater autonomy or even independence, what are the key variables that lead the central government to suppress or not to suppress with the police force or military power? To identify the main variables of the central government’s use of force towards independence or autonomy movement, this thesis performs a Crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) for the three main cases, that are Quebec, Catalonia and Hong Kong, and the additional five cases: Basque, Corsica, New Caledonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland to analyze the relationship between the presence of various conditions and the outcome. The result of this thesis shows that, the intensity of the central government’s response to independence or autonomy movement is tremendously influenced by the economic interaction between the region and the central. If the region’s economic development highly depends on the central government, then the central authority tends not to repress the regional independence or autonomy movement. On the other hand, in the situation that the seeker of independence or autonomy de jure does not have the right to conduct a self-determination plebiscite or to hold a chief executive election. Once the region seeks to independence plebiscite or autonomy expansion, and at the same time there are other regions with similar situation in the home country, it is very likely to be suppressed by the central government’s use of police force or military power. |
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