Sub-state nationalism and social solidarity : essays on Spain and the United Kingdom

This dissertation focuses on sub-state nationalism in Europe, concentrating on the critical cases of Spain and the United Kingdom, where recent independence referenda in Catalonia and Scotland illustrate that sub-state nationalism is neither confined to weak states nor a thing of the past. In the first paper, I argue that the mobilization of sub-state identity in Spain influences preferences for what I term policy scope, the physical area in which a policy is intended to apply and be carried out, distinct from policy content, the intended effects of a policy. In the particular case of preferences for redistribution, I find that 1 that strong identifiers in the highly mobilized region of Catalonia, whether they identify more with Catalonia or with Spain, are more likely to support redistribution when its scope is the community with which they most identify.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Berwick, Elissa,1987-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kathleen Thelen.

• Political Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124279

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/124279