@article{ref1,
title="The Basque power‐sharing experience: from a destructive to a constructive conflict?",
journal="Nations and nationalism",
year="2008",
author="Mansvelt Beck, Jan",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="61-83",
abstract="ABSTRACT.  Neither the devolution of powers to the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain nor more than a decade of power-sharing within this region has led to a peaceful settlement of the Basque conflict. Combining Kriesberg's approach to conflict resolution and consociational theory, past power-sharing experiences are analysed. The lack of overarching loyalties, traditions of compromise, comprehensive participation and the continuation of violence have frustrated power-sharing. After the 2006 ceasefire, the conditions for giving the conflict a constructive turn have not fundamentally changed. The potential for alternative forms of power-sharing as a way out of the Basque conflict, combined or not with innovative territorial arrangements cannot be employed because of multi-scale polarisation. De-escalation as a prerequisite for new types of power-sharing arrangements requires relearning democratic pluralism and a recognition of ethnic hybridity in this politically and geographically fragmented society.<p />",
language="",
issn="1354-5078",
doi="10.1111/j.1469-8129.2008.00327.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2008.00327.x"
}