The Political Economy of Independence in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367896478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Hana Lipovska

Opis

This book examines secessionism, separatism and calls for independence in the European Union, in recent history and within an economic context. The author connects the sensibility of romantic factors involved in secession such as language, religion or ethnicity with the sense of economic factors through a rational, economic approach.

Spis treści

List of figures List of tables List of appendices Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1 Secession in political economy of conflict 1.1 Political economy of conflict 1.2 Theory of secession 1.2.1 Secession as a conflict in the political economy 1.2.2 Secession as a conflict over territory 1.3 Practice of the secession 1.3.1 Secessionist waves in Europe 1.3.2 Secessionist parties and movements 1.3.3 Secessionist political parties and their attitude towards EU 1.3.4 Role of leaders 1.4 The reasons for secession 1.4.1 Romantic factors 1.4.2 Economic factors 1.5 Solutions of secession in the economic theory 1.5.1 Secession and the property rights 1.5.2 Fiscal decentralism Summary 2 Methodology and data 2.1 Methodology 2.2 Data 2.2.1 A survey on autonomist and pro-independence movements 2.2.2 Survey description 2.3 Other data sources Summary 3 Romantic and economic factors: empirical results 3.1 Description of the respondents 3.2 Romantic factors 3.2.1 Informal institutions 3.2.2 Formal institutions 3.3 Economic factors 3.3.1 Macroeconomic factors 3.3.2 Microeconomic factors 3.4 Cobb-Douglas function Summary 4 Secessionist profile of Flanders and South Tyrol 4.1 Flanders 4.2 South Tyrol Conclusion Appendices References Index

O autorze

Hana Lipovská is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.