Political severance - Secession referenda, their convocation and ratification: A comparative study

Lorne Walker-Nolan

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Political severance - Secession referenda, their convocation and ratification: A comparative study

Lorne Walker-Nolan

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	591-620
Journal	International Journal of Minority and Group Rights
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15718115-02504004
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

Constitutional law
Independence
Referenda
Secession
Self-determination

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