Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0006
Can Institutions of Autonomy Become Potentially “Subversive Institutions”?
Hrvoje Ćurko
; Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia
Abstract
Institutions of autonomy in ethnically heterogeneous states have been conceived as a compromise between a desire to safeguard state unity and to partially accommodate the grievances of ethnolinguistic minorities. However, in practice, the institutions of autonomy often turn into a nucleus of a proto state of the ethno-linguistic minority. Instead of resolving the minority issue and stabilising the central state, they strengthen the local nationalism and secessionism, acting as centrifugal forces, or “subversive institutions”. Recently these processes have been noticed in several ethnically heterogeneous, developed Western democracies. The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether, and how, the institutions of autonomy influence the rise of peripheral nationalism and secessionism.
Keywords
Peripheral nationalism; secessionism; autonomy; ethno-federalism; subversive institutions; Spanish and French Basque Country
Hrčak ID:
167356
URI
Publication date:
5.10.2016.
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