Readership: Academics and advanced students working in constitutional law and constitutional theory, political science, and sociologists with an interest in nationalism
Stephen Tierney, Lecturer in Law, University of Edinburgh
Part I Theoretical approaches to national pluralism 1: The plurinational state in context 2: Theories of nationalism and national identity 3: The plurinational state: a normative challenge 4: Sub-State national societies and contemporary challenges to the nation-state Part II The constitutional accommodation of Catalonia, Quebec and Scotland 5: The process of constitutional change in plurinational states 6: Substantive constitutional accommodation: autonomy, representation and recognition 7: The judicial role: mediating national diversity in plurinational states 8: Referendums: towards agreed models of constitutional accommodation 9: Future prospects for the plurinational state
