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BQ in the House: the Nature of Sovereigntist Representation in the Canadian Parliament / Young, Lori; Belanger, Eric

Young, Lori	Journal Article
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2008.

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We address the behavior of separatist parties participating in state legislatures in well-established democracies, taking the Bloc Qu b cois (BQ) as a case. Analysis of oral questions asked in the Canadian House of Commons reveals a broad set of issues addressed by the BQ; its aggregate priorities comprising many issues of federal concern. It is shown that the BQ's attention to issues of separation in Question Period mainly follows, rather than leads, public support in Quebec for sovereignty. The party appears on the whole limited in its ability to mobilize public support for sovereignty and to pursue its separatist agenda more rigorously.

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Canada ; BQ ; Parliyament ; Sovereigntist

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Horowitz's Theory of Ethnic Party Competition and the Case of t / Mcloughlin, P J

Mcloughlin, P J	Journal Article
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2008.

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Donald Horowitz's theory of ethnic conflict suggests that a political party operating in a deeply divided society can be effected by a centrifugal pull even when it is not subject to formal electoral competition. This idea can be applied to Northern Ireland's SDLP in the 1970s, when the party faced no credible electoral rival within its primary political constituency. Doing so helps to explain why the SDLP failed in its original objective of mobilizing a cross-community constituency, and instead became what Horowitz terms an "ethnically based party," representing the interests of only one side of the political divide in Northern Ireland.

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Social ; Northern Ireland ; Ireland ; Labour ; Democratic ; Party ;
Ethinic

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Northan Ireland and cyprus: towards a typology of international conflict in the European periphery / Zink, Allan

Zink, Allan	Journal Article
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2008.

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Ireland ; Cyprus ; Ethnonationalism ; Political ; Ethinic ; Northern ;
Typology ; Europian ; Historical ; Dimension

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Premodern Croatian Nationalism? / Drakulic, Slobodan

Drakulic, Slobodan	Journal Article
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2008.

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This paper examines three widespread views: that nationalism is a modern phenomenon with negligible premodern antecedents or none; that South Slav nationalisms have emerged in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century; and that they arose in emulation of their West European forerunners. I argue that modern nationalism has appreciable antecedents suggestive of protonationalism or premodern nationalism; that such antecedents are found within and beyond Western Europe; and that premodern Croatian nationalism was not an offshoot of Western antecedents, but as autochthonous as any comparable social phenomena can be.

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Nationlism ; Premodern ; Latin - Slavic Symbiosis

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