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The push for independence in Catalonia

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In 2017, Catalonia unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The independence push was not simply a bottom-up process wherein citizens increasingly demanded independence. Catalan political elites were more radical than voters and competitive outbidding to win hegemony in the pro-independence camp fuelled the independence push.

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  1. Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, Universitat de València, València, Spain

    Astrid Barrio

  2. Department of Global Studies, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA

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Barrio, A., Field, B.N. The push for independence in Catalonia. Nat Hum Behav 2, 713–715 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0439-8

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