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The Nationalism of the Rich - Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland (Paperback)
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The Nationalism of the Rich - Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western
European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth
examination of the 'nationalism of the rich', defined as a type of
nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic 'exploitation'
suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and
supposedly carried out by the populations of poorer regions and/or
by inefficient state administrations. It shows that the nationalism
of the rich represents a new phenomenon peculiar to societies that
have set in place complex systems of wealth redistribution and
adopted economic growth as the main principle of government
legitimacy. The book argues that the nationalism of the rich can be
seen as a rhetorical strategy portraying independent statehood as a
solution to the dilemma between solidarity and efficiency arisen in
Western Europe since the end of the Glorious Thirties. It further
suggests that its formation can be best explained by the following
combination of factors: (1) the creation, from the end of the
Second World War, of extensive forms of automatic redistribution to
a scale previously unprecedented; (2) the beginning, from the
mid-1970s, of an era of 'permanent austerity' exacerbated, in
specific contexts, by situations of serious public policy failure;
(3) the existence of national/cultural cleavages roughly squaring
with uneven development and sharp income differentials among
territorial areas of a given state.
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