Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy

André Lecours is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are nationalism and federalism. He is the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 2005); the author of Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007), the co-author (with Daniel Béland) of Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008); and the co-author (with Daniel Béland, Gregory Marchildon, Haizhen Mou and Rose Olfert) of Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions (University of Toronto Press, 2017).

• 1: Introduction2: Nationalism and Secessionism: Autonomy, Static and Dynamic3: Catalonia : The Secessionist Turn4: Scotland: The Secessionist Surge5: Flanders: The Marginality of Secessionism6: South Tyrol: From Irredentism and Secessionism to Autonomy7: Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy: the Basque Country, Puerto Rico, and Québec8: Towards a Theory of Secessionism in Liberal-Democracies9: Conclusion

original and highly stimulating work ... André Lecours has written a compact book with what promises to be a very large intellectual footprint.