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- Title
Political Severance – Secession Referenda, Their Convocation and Ratification: A Comparative Study.
- Authors
Walker-Nolan, Lorne
- Abstract
Recent years have seen increases in demands for secession via referenda. Catalonia, Kurdistan, Quebec, Scotland, South Sudan and other polities have seen this process as a means of resolving sovereignty disputes. There is however, considerable academic, political and legal argument against secession and this study will explore these objections and shall ask if secession is an automatic right. It shall also investigate such referenda, comparing how they are convoked and ratified, and the legal and political aftermath once they have been held – if indeed they have been permitted.
- Subjects
SOVEREIGNTY; SECESSION; REFERENDUM; AUTONOMY &; independence movements; RIGHT to self-determination; CONSTITUTIONAL law; CATALONIAN autonomy &; independence movements
- Publication
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 4, p591
- ISSN
1385-4879
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15718115-02504004