Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights

"""This highly suggestive book addresses the thorny issue of secession from a novel perspective. Secessionist aspirations in Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia are analysed in terms of 'constitutional culture, ' a concept that is understood in a broad and comprehensive way. The result is a truly brilliant work that, in the face of the independence issue in distinct institutional contexts, proposes to focus attention on the specific values that can be effectively shared in each of these constitutional cultures."" --Ana Carmona Contreras, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Seville ""The political and constitutional situations in Catalonia, Scotland, and Quebec are hotly debated topics. In that context, by drawing on the concept of constitutional culture, this book provides a very useful and insightful analysis that will please not only constitutional lawyers and political scientists but also journalists and commentators."" --Guillaume Rousseau, Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke ""Clearly written, Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights is suggestive, objective, and logically argued. This clarity is a valuable feature in a book that focuses on controversial topics such as secession and national identities."" --Alejandro Torres Guti�rrez, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Public University of Navarra"