title: Visions of Sovereignty: Nationalism and Accommodation in Multinational Democracies (National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century)
author:  Jaime Lluch 
description: Visions of Sovereignty presents a powerful challenge to rational choice and materialist theories of nationalism. Lluch's 'moral polity thesis' emphasizes the failure on the part of central governments and majority groups in plurinational states to engage national minorities in their vision of the state,thus providing an enlightening account of contemporary Catalan and Qubcois nationalism, and some of the political conundrums facing multinational democracies. <br /><br />Andr Lecours,University of Ottawa, Canada<br /><br />"<b>With his book, Jaime Lluchmakes an important contribution to thestudy of nationalism, secession, and political party systems in multinational states.Lluch offers a range of convincing theoretical and empirical arguments to account for thevariation in nationalist preferences, including independentism, autonomism, and federalism. This is an extremely well-researched, convincing, and highly readable investigation of the tripartite taxonomy in nationalist movements: why some nationalist parties seek secession while others aim to establish autonomous special status within the existing state, and still others are satisfied with federal arrangements... Overall,there is much to commend in this recent addition to the scholarship on nationalism: the presentation of an original theoretical contribution and enhanced understandingof the variation in national movements based on rich data in Qubec and Catalonia. It offers a promising comparative research agenda for scholars and students of stateless nations in multinational democracies."<br /><br />Joanne McEvoy,Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4 (December, 2016), pp. 1252-54.</b><br /><br /><b>"This is an original, provocative approachto the study of minority nationalist movements...One of the most impressive features of this project is the depth of field research, including interviews and surveys of hundreds of party leaders and militants and primary party documents going back several decades...It offers the possibility of exploring many similar cases to further test and refine its arguments. Recommended."</b><br /><b>Philip Howe,Choice: Current Reviews for Academic LibrariesVol. 52 No. 10 (June 2015)</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>"With a refined theoretical approach, the primary objective ofVisions ofSovereigntyis to present what Lluch calls the "moral polity thesis" in order to explain why and in what ways stateless nations seek forms of self-determination...Lluch's unique and original theoryoutlines how, in multinational democracies, nationalists consider themselves as part of the "moral polity" wherein stateless nations have expectations of reciprocity, and accommodation by the central state...His findings are impeccably organized inVisions of Sovereignty...Lluch writes a compelling case for his moral polity thesis that proves to be far more satisfactory than explanations that have come before it.It is a more complex and diverse explanation of nationalism as we know it today."</b><br /><b>Cole Edick,Harvard International Review, Vol. 36 (March 22, 2015).</b><br /><b></b><br /><b></b><br /><br /><span>Lluch employs an impressive array of empirical evidence to offer new insights into the workings of nationalist movements. 'Visions of Sovereignty' skilfully demonstrates that such movements are not homogenous entities as generally thought, but they are made up of multiple territorial actors, each with competing constitutional demands that pulls them into different directions over time. This perspective is an important addition to the literature.</span><br /> <b><span></span></b><br /> Eve Hepburn, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK<br /><br />"These are questions that, as the author points out, lack answers because they have not been contemplated by previous political research on nationalism and secessionism...<b>The book is easy to read,interesting, and original. The originality comes from a combination of the "moral polity" perspective and the extensive empirical evidence the author has collected and analyzed</b>...Both the subject matter and the perspective the author takes absolutely succeed in captivating the interest of the reader in the potential and complexity of analyzing and understanding the cognitive dimension of politics, a rather 'classical' but never sufficiently valued perspective of analysis. Overall, a book well worth reading."<br /><b>Mireia Grau Creus,Publius: The Journal of FederalismVol. 45 No. 3 (Summer 2015)</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>"This is an ambitious book</b>that documents within-case variations in national(ist) movements and examines how and why these variations emerge and change over time...In place of the existing paradigms which ignore and/or fail to examine the heterogeneity within national movements,<b>Lluch offers a new approach...Visions of Sovereigntyis an engaging read. The books's strength is due both to its reliance on rich empirical data and its theoretical innovation. Lluch undoubtedly makes a contribution to our understanding of national movements and his conclusions are of great relevance</b>to cases beyond Qubec and Catalonia."<br /><b>Yesim Bayar,Political Studies Review(U.K.), 15(3) (May, 2017).</b>
zlib_text: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity 
  BEYOND NATIONALISM AND 
  THE NATION-STATE 
  RADICAL APPROACHES TO NATION 
  Edited by
  . Ilker Cörüt and Joost Jongerden 
  
   
   
   
  BEYOND NATIONALISM AND 
  THE NATION-STATE 
  This book centers on one fundamental question: is it possible to imagine a 
  progressive sense of nation? Rooted in historic and contemporary social struggles, 
  the chapters in this collection examine what a progressive sense of nation might 
  look like, with authors exploring the theory and practice of the nation beyond 
  nationalism. 
  The book is written against the background of rising authoritarian-
  nationalist movements globally over the last few decades, where many countries 
  have witnessed the dramatic escalation of ethnic-nationalist parties impacting 
  and changing mainstream politics and normalizing anti-immigration, anti-
  democratic, and Islamophobic discourse. This volume discusses viable alternatives 
  for nationalism, which is inherently exclusionary, exploring the p