Reflexiones sobre las raíces del nacionalismo étnico vasco y su influencia en el proceso político

Cases Méndez, José Ignacio

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Reflexiones sobre las raíces del nacionalismo étnico vasco y su influencia en el proceso político

dc.contributor.author	Cases Méndez, José Ignacio	es
dc.contributor.editor	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Ciencia Política y Sociología. Área de Ciencia Política y de la Administración	es
dc.contributor.editor	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Política y Gobernanza	es
dc.date.accessioned	2008-02-22T11:23:12Z
dc.date.available	2008-02-22T11:23:12Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.description.abstract	The objective of the working paper is to establish a relationship between the Basque nationalist ideology in its two principal manifestations (the nonterrorist approach of the PNV and the terrorist movement of ETA) and the influence that it exerts on the general political activity of Spain’s democracy as well as on the daytoday lives of the people in the country. The main reason for the role played by this phenomenon is not the weight of the nationalist ideology itself (which Spain’s population sees as antiquated), but rather the “pro domo sua” use which nonterrorist nationalism makes of the acts of violence and the threats against democracy by the terrorists. Following an analysis of the main characteristics defining the Basque nationalist ideology, the conclusion is that the PNV consists of a bourgeois machinery designed at the end of the 19th century in order to attain and hold power with a scarcely democratic ideological base, which uses the support of the terrorist movement (even though it may not share all of its objectives, which ETA defines ambiguously as independence and socialism) but rather because the terrorist activity facilitates the line of argumentation that the terrible violence inflicted upon the Basque people can only be resolved by means of political concessions which should lead to independence under the guidance of the PNV. This is nothing more than a fallacy, ignoring the fact that Basque society is not a homogeneous society, but rather is terribly divided into two halves, to which a democratic decisionmaking mechanism of a simple majority cannot be applied, as the situation calls for a consociationbased democracy. Even a number of outstanding nonterrorist nationalists believe that it is neither possible nor acceptable to carry out a reform of the Statute that would involve the supplanting of the political subject constituted on the basis of a covenant by another political subject constituted simply by the decision of a relative majority.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.issn	1698-482X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/1561
dc.language.iso	spa	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Documentos de Trabajo. Política y Gestión	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	10/2007	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Política	es
dc.subject.other	Nacionalismo	es
dc.subject.other	País Vasco	es
dc.subject.other	Sistema político	es
dc.subject.other	Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV)	es
dc.subject.other	Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA)
dc.subject.other	España	es
dc.subject.other	Conflicto político	es
dc.title	Reflexiones sobre las raíces del nacionalismo étnico vasco y su influencia en el proceso político	es
dc.type	working paper	*
dc.type.review	PeerReviewed	en
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