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been comparatively neglected, yet these are very necessary to an understanding of what nationalism means in contemporary Europe. Focusing on electoral support for nationalist parties and for nationalist demands, James G. Kellas provides a detailed and up-to-date survey of nationalist politics in pra

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States and Nations,est territorial jurisdictions were those of what we call tribes or clans, which soon shade imperceptibly into kingdoms and principalities. From the Roman Empire to the European Union (EU) larger schemes of political union have taken place, which have competed with the claims of the smaller tribal/et

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The British Isles,d/.), and at least four nations (England, Scotland, Wales/. and Ireland). Claims are made by Cornish nationalists that there is a Cornish nation, and by Manx people that there is a Manx nation. Many inhabitants of Orkney and Shetland deny that they are Scottish: instead, they claim to be Norse (they

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France,the ideology of national self-determination. In this ideology, the nation is given a special place alongside democracy. In fact, the two are made interdependent. Without a nation there can be no democracy, since it is the nation which constitutes the people who are given the right of self-determinat

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Spain/, and Portugal, Isabella of Castile. Their marriage in 1469 had already united their respective kingdoms, and in 1492 Granada was captured from the Moors, which completed the unity of Spain. However, in 1704 Gibraltar was lost to England, and became a British colony after the Union of 1707 with Scotland. Despite a

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The Low Countries (Belgium/ ,, the Netherlands/,, and Luxembourg),roup them together as archetypal ‘smaller European democracies’, and two (Belgium and the Netherlands) are examples of ‘consociational’ or power-sharing democracies, although based on different social and political ‘cleavages’ (only Belgium is divided by ethnicity and language).. It is doubtful if t

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,‘Mitteleuropa’ (Austria/,, Hungary/,, the Czech Republic/, and Slovakia/,),t that point, Austrian imperialism was replaced by nation-states of a kind. Apart from the four states in this chapter, the Hapsburgs lost control of the south of Poland to the new nation-state of Poland, the north of Italy had already gone to Italy by 1866, and Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegov