Federalization and Ethnoterritorial Concurrence in Spain

Abstract

The progressive federalization of the Spanish Estado de las Autonomias (State of the Autonomies) is in accordance with a model of multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence. The process of territorial accommodation in Spain relates substate ethnic mobilization with the competitive interplay among Spanish regions and nationalities in pursuit of political and economic power. The regions and nationalities also strive for the achievement of legitimation for their institutional development. This article reviews developments and features that have set this type of plural competition and solidarity into play in Spain.