Sovereigntists and Associationists

This article seeks to explain why certain substate national movements tend to develop as “association-seeking” national movements, while others develop a “sovereignty-seeking” orientation. An association-seeking national movement is a national movement that has developed a strong autonomist or federalist orientation. I illuminate the causal mechanisms that help to explain across-case variation in national movements’ political orientation by contrasting the origins of the associationist tendency of the Puerto Rican (1930s–1950s) and Catalan (late 19th century–1936) national movements with the origins of the sovereigntist tendency of the Québécois (1960–1980) and the Basque (late 19th century–1936) ones. Substate national movements tend to develop as association-seeking movements if they are framed by a mode of development that creates structural incentives for maintaining close political and economic ties with the central state. Sovereignty-seeking national movements tend to occur if a mode of development has resulted in displacement or dislocation, and the substate nationalists perceive that this poses a threat to the national or cultural integrity of their society

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