How do prospects of EU membership influence support for secession? A survey experiment in Catalonia and Scotland

West European Politics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1115-1138

  Muro, Diego ^a   Vlaskamp, Martijn C ^b  

^a INSTITUT BARCELONA D ESTUDIS INTERNACIONALS IBEI   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

nationalism; referendum; Separatism; Spain; survey experiment; UK

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; NATION STATE; NATIONALISM; PERCEPTION; SOVEREIGNTY; SURVEY METHOD;

CATALONIA; SCOTLAND; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84983346292     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2016.1149993     Document Type: Article

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