List of figures
List of tables
List of appendices
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Secession in political economy of conflict
1.1 Political economy of conflict
1.2 Theory of secession
1.2.1 Secession as a conflict in the political economy
1.2.2 Secession as a conflict over territory
1.3 Practice of the secession
1.3.1 Secessionist waves in Europe
1.3.2 Secessionist parties and movements
1.3.3 Secessionist political parties and their attitude towards EU
1.3.4 Role of leaders
1.4 The reasons for secession
1.4.1 Romantic factors
1.4.2 Economic factors
1.5 Solutions of secession in the economic theory
1.5.1 Secession and the property rights
1.5.2 Fiscal decentralism
Summary
2 Methodology and data
2.1 Methodology
2.2 Data
2.2.1 A survey on autonomist and pro-independence movements
2.2.2 Survey description
2.3 Other data sources
Summary
3 Romantic and economic factors: empirical results
3.1 Description of the respondents
3.2 Romantic factors 3.2.1 Informal institutions
3.2.2 Formal institutions
3.3 Economic factors
3.3.1 Macroeconomic factors
3.3.2 Microeconomic factors
3.4 Cobb-Douglas function
Summary
4 Secessionist profile of Flanders and South Tyrol
4.1 Flanders
4.2 South Tyrol
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index
Biography
Hana Lipovská is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
