Economic expectations and support for secession in Catalonia: Between causality and rationalization

European Political Science Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 315-341

  Muñoz, Jordi ^a   Tormos, Raül ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centre d'Estudis d'Opinió   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalonia; economy; secession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938055673     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773914000174     Document Type: Article

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