Abstract

The article explores the discourse Basque nationalists are currently engaging in about sovereignty in the post-ETA political scene. More concretely, we will analyse the arguments used to justify sovereignty and the main strategies used to articulate these ideas, and our analysis will illustrate that the matter is dominated by issues related to the defence and construction of a Basque democracy rather than by traditional nationalist arguments. A process we have called ‘institutional populist articulation’ will explain the political logic lying behind the hegemonic success of Basque nationalism, and we will see that Basque demands for sovereignty are just one particular symptom of a global phenomenon.

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