Karlo Basta
Biographic Data
| ID | 798325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karlo Basta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Basta |
| SIGNATURE | BASTA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1526-0644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The State of Nationalism (SoN): Nationalism and Capitalism
While the scholarship on the role capitalism played in the genesis of nationalism is relatively coherent, our understanding of the relationship between those two phenomena once they have emerged is much more disjointed. Are capitalism and nationalism inherently conflictual or is their relationship a symbiotic one? Under what conditions is one of those two patterns more likely? Clues about this dimension of the link between capitalism and national…
Mechanisms of mobilisation: Catalonia’s ‘procés’ and the lost autonomy theories of secession
Recent work on secession foregrounds the loss of autonomy in explaining support for independence. These theories imply that objective institutional shifts possess inherent meaning for the relevant political actors. In this article we propose that the meaning of institutional change must be actively constructed and cannot be read off the ‘objective’ characteristics of institutional change. Our analysis of secessionist mobilisation in Catalonia (Sp…
Multinationalism, Constitutional Asymmetry and Covid: UK Responses to the Pandemic
This article explores how the asymmetric institutionalization of the United Kingdom's multinationality interacted with the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK's political elite has traditionally accepted the country's multinational character, but democratic institutionalization of it occurred relatively recently and in a remarkably asymmetric manner. Only the UK's minority nations possess devolved governments, while the largest nation, England, is governed…
Vassilis Petsinis: National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans
Article Vassilis Petsinis: National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 69, issue 4)
Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry
In the growing literature on the management of differences in multinational states, institutions (such as territorial autonomy or power-sharing) are typically understood as means through which various stakeholders achieve their goals. This scholarship is largely silent on the expressive and symbolic dimensions of those institutions. This is a major oversight, limiting our understanding of the politics of multinational states. I demonstrate the im…
Time's Up: Framing Collective Impatience for Radical Political Change
Grievance is a prominent feature of mobilization for radical political change. Existing scholarship, however, does not pay sufficient attention to the temporal texture of grievance narratives. Temporally “flat” narratives of grievance are ill equipped to provide either the cognitive or emotional stimulus for major political reorientation. In response to this issue, the article develops the concept of collective exhaustion master frames. These are…
The State between Minority and Majority Nationalism: Decentralization, Symbolic Recognition, and Secessionist Crises in Spain and Canada
This article addresses the debate about the relative utility of accommodative federalism as a method of conflict management in multinational states. Comparative scholarship on this issue assumes that territorial reform translates into political stability or instability through policy substance. This article tests that assumption against processes of institutional accommodation of Catalan and Quebecois demands for autonomy and recognition. The com…
The Social Construction of Transformative Political Events
Comparative political scientists have sought to remedy their subdiscipline’s structuralist tendencies by paying greater analytical attention to transformative political events. Yet, our conceptual understanding of events remains rudimentary. The article addresses this conceptual gap in two ways. First, it foregrounds symbolic meaning-making as the constitutive attribute of events. Second, it demonstrates that events are not inherently agency-faci…
Concession and Secession: Constitutional Bargaining Failure in Post‐Communist Czechoslovakia
This article explains the dissolution of Czechoslovak federation. It shows that the breakdown in bargaining between Slovakia and the federal center in Prague resulted from the federal institutional framework, differences in fiscal policy preferences and elite patronage incentives to monopolize the spoils of state property sell‐offs. Relatively less developed minority regions often seek greater autonomy in order to redress their economic backwardn…
Imagined Institutions: The Symbolic Power of Formal Rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Through a detailed examination of institutional discourses in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article demonstrates that formal political institutions may play a more layered role than is allowed by existing theories of nationalist and ethnic conflict. Competing institutional preferences of Bosniak, Serb, and Croat elites are not simply instruments for the achievement of collective or individual goals. They are symbolically salient expressio…
Territorial Pluralism: Managing Difference in Multinational States
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty, nation-building, and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state’s authorities will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? Territo…
Southeastern Europe, written by Soeren Keil
Ethnicity and Democratic Governance: Territorial Pluralism
The state as a symbol or a means to an end: Internal Border Changes in Multinational Federations
Federalism is an important institutional option for the management of difference in multinational states. A number of scholars have argued that the internal boundaries of such states should divide each constituent group into several federal units. In theory, boundary engineering of this type should activate cross‐cutting cleavages, subvert secessionist movements and, ultimately, foster political integration and stability. This article, by contras…
Non-ethnic Origins of Ethnofederal Institutions: The Case of Yugoslavia
Many scholars argue that the territorial accommodation of nationalist demands usually results from “ethnic” factors, such as the threat of ethnonationalism to the integrity of the state. Using the case of the former Yugoslavia, this article shows that explanations of ethnofederal outcomes must also consider non-ethnic political factors. In the Yugoslav case, the anti-statist ideology of the central leadership provided the autonomy-seeking actors …
The Social Construction of Transformative Political Events
Comparative political scientists have sought to remedy their subdiscipline’s structuralist tendencies by paying greater analytical attention to transformative political events. Yet, our conceptual understanding of events remains rudimentary. The article addresses this conceptual gap in two ways. First, it foregrounds symbolic meaning-making as the constitutive attribute of events. Second, it demonstrates that events are not inherently agency-faci…
The State between Minority and Majority Nationalism: Decentralization, Symbolic Recognition, and Secessionist Crises in Spain and Canada
This article addresses the debate about the relative utility of accommodative federalism as a method of conflict management in multinational states. Comparative scholarship on this issue assumes that territorial reform translates into political stability or instability through policy substance. This article tests that assumption against processes of institutional accommodation of Catalan and Quebecois demands for autonomy and recognition. The com…
Time's Up: Framing Collective Impatience for Radical Political Change
Grievance is a prominent feature of mobilization for radical political change. Existing scholarship, however, does not pay sufficient attention to the temporal texture of grievance narratives. Temporally “flat” narratives of grievance are ill equipped to provide either the cognitive or emotional stimulus for major political reorientation. In response to this issue, the article develops the concept of collective exhaustion master frames. These are…
Imagined Institutions: The Symbolic Power of Formal Rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Through a detailed examination of institutional discourses in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article demonstrates that formal political institutions may play a more layered role than is allowed by existing theories of nationalist and ethnic conflict. Competing institutional preferences of Bosniak, Serb, and Croat elites are not simply instruments for the achievement of collective or individual goals. They are symbolically salient expressio…
The state as a symbol or a means to an end: Internal Border Changes in Multinational Federations
Federalism is an important institutional option for the management of difference in multinational states. A number of scholars have argued that the internal boundaries of such states should divide each constituent group into several federal units. In theory, boundary engineering of this type should activate cross‐cutting cleavages, subvert secessionist movements and, ultimately, foster political integration and stability. This article, by contras…
Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry
In the growing literature on the management of differences in multinational states, institutions (such as territorial autonomy or power-sharing) are typically understood as means through which various stakeholders achieve their goals. This scholarship is largely silent on the expressive and symbolic dimensions of those institutions. This is a major oversight, limiting our understanding of the politics of multinational states. I demonstrate the im…
Concession and Secession: Constitutional Bargaining Failure in Post‐Communist Czechoslovakia
This article explains the dissolution of Czechoslovak federation. It shows that the breakdown in bargaining between Slovakia and the federal center in Prague resulted from the federal institutional framework, differences in fiscal policy preferences and elite patronage incentives to monopolize the spoils of state property sell‐offs. Relatively less developed minority regions often seek greater autonomy in order to redress their economic backwardn…
Non-ethnic Origins of Ethnofederal Institutions: The Case of Yugoslavia
Many scholars argue that the territorial accommodation of nationalist demands usually results from “ethnic” factors, such as the threat of ethnonationalism to the integrity of the state. Using the case of the former Yugoslavia, this article shows that explanations of ethnofederal outcomes must also consider non-ethnic political factors. In the Yugoslav case, the anti-statist ideology of the central leadership provided the autonomy-seeking actors …
Mechanisms of mobilisation: Catalonia’s ‘procés’ and the lost autonomy theories of secession
Recent work on secession foregrounds the loss of autonomy in explaining support for independence. These theories imply that objective institutional shifts possess inherent meaning for the relevant political actors. In this article we propose that the meaning of institutional change must be actively constructed and cannot be read off the ‘objective’ characteristics of institutional change. Our analysis of secessionist mobilisation in Catalonia (Sp…
Multinationalism, Constitutional Asymmetry and Covid: UK Responses to the Pandemic
This article explores how the asymmetric institutionalization of the United Kingdom's multinationality interacted with the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK's political elite has traditionally accepted the country's multinational character, but democratic institutionalization of it occurred relatively recently and in a remarkably asymmetric manner. Only the UK's minority nations possess devolved governments, while the largest nation, England, is governed…
Non-ethnic Origins of Ethnofederal Institutions: The Case of Yugoslavia
Many scholars argue that the territorial accommodation of nationalist demands usually results from “ethnic” factors, such as the threat of ethnonationalism to the integrity of the state. Using the case of the former Yugoslavia, this article shows that explanations of ethnofederal outcomes must also consider non-ethnic political factors. In the Yugoslav case, the anti-statist ideology of the central leadership provided the autonomy-seeking actors …
The state as a symbol or a means to an end: Internal Border Changes in Multinational Federations
Federalism is an important institutional option for the management of difference in multinational states. A number of scholars have argued that the internal boundaries of such states should divide each constituent group into several federal units. In theory, boundary engineering of this type should activate cross‐cutting cleavages, subvert secessionist movements and, ultimately, foster political integration and stability. This article, by contras…
Territorial Pluralism: Managing Difference in Multinational States
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty, nation-building, and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state’s authorities will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? Territo…
Southeastern Europe, written by Soeren Keil
Ethnicity and Democratic Governance: Territorial Pluralism
Concession and Secession: Constitutional Bargaining Failure in Post‐Communist Czechoslovakia
This article explains the dissolution of Czechoslovak federation. It shows that the breakdown in bargaining between Slovakia and the federal center in Prague resulted from the federal institutional framework, differences in fiscal policy preferences and elite patronage incentives to monopolize the spoils of state property sell‐offs. Relatively less developed minority regions often seek greater autonomy in order to redress their economic backwardn…
Imagined Institutions: The Symbolic Power of Formal Rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Through a detailed examination of institutional discourses in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article demonstrates that formal political institutions may play a more layered role than is allowed by existing theories of nationalist and ethnic conflict. Competing institutional preferences of Bosniak, Serb, and Croat elites are not simply instruments for the achievement of collective or individual goals. They are symbolically salient expressio…
The State between Minority and Majority Nationalism: Decentralization, Symbolic Recognition, and Secessionist Crises in Spain and Canada
This article addresses the debate about the relative utility of accommodative federalism as a method of conflict management in multinational states. Comparative scholarship on this issue assumes that territorial reform translates into political stability or instability through policy substance. This article tests that assumption against processes of institutional accommodation of Catalan and Quebecois demands for autonomy and recognition. The com…
The Social Construction of Transformative Political Events
Comparative political scientists have sought to remedy their subdiscipline’s structuralist tendencies by paying greater analytical attention to transformative political events. Yet, our conceptual understanding of events remains rudimentary. The article addresses this conceptual gap in two ways. First, it foregrounds symbolic meaning-making as the constitutive attribute of events. Second, it demonstrates that events are not inherently agency-faci…
Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry
In the growing literature on the management of differences in multinational states, institutions (such as territorial autonomy or power-sharing) are typically understood as means through which various stakeholders achieve their goals. This scholarship is largely silent on the expressive and symbolic dimensions of those institutions. This is a major oversight, limiting our understanding of the politics of multinational states. I demonstrate the im…
Time's Up: Framing Collective Impatience for Radical Political Change
Grievance is a prominent feature of mobilization for radical political change. Existing scholarship, however, does not pay sufficient attention to the temporal texture of grievance narratives. Temporally “flat” narratives of grievance are ill equipped to provide either the cognitive or emotional stimulus for major political reorientation. In response to this issue, the article develops the concept of collective exhaustion master frames. These are…
Multinationalism, Constitutional Asymmetry and Covid: UK Responses to the Pandemic
This article explores how the asymmetric institutionalization of the United Kingdom's multinationality interacted with the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK's political elite has traditionally accepted the country's multinational character, but democratic institutionalization of it occurred relatively recently and in a remarkably asymmetric manner. Only the UK's minority nations possess devolved governments, while the largest nation, England, is governed…
Vassilis Petsinis: National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans
Article Vassilis Petsinis: National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 69, issue 4)
Mechanisms of mobilisation: Catalonia’s ‘procés’ and the lost autonomy theories of secession
Recent work on secession foregrounds the loss of autonomy in explaining support for independence. These theories imply that objective institutional shifts possess inherent meaning for the relevant political actors. In this article we propose that the meaning of institutional change must be actively constructed and cannot be read off the ‘objective’ characteristics of institutional change. Our analysis of secessionist mobilisation in Catalonia (Sp…
The State of Nationalism (SoN): Nationalism and Capitalism
While the scholarship on the role capitalism played in the genesis of nationalism is relatively coherent, our understanding of the relationship between those two phenomena once they have emerged is much more disjointed. Are capitalism and nationalism inherently conflictual or is their relationship a symbiotic one? Under what conditions is one of those two patterns more likely? Clues about this dimension of the link between capitalism and national…
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