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DESCRIPTION:Germà\nBel: professor of economics and public policy at\nUniver
 sity of Barcelona and director of the Observatory of Analysis and Evaluati
 on\nof Public Policies.&nbsp\; Support for independence in Catalonia has i
 ncreased\nrapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Cata
 lans in\npolitical\, economic\, social\, academic\, and cultural fields wh
 o no longer\nbelieve that the necessary reform of the Spanish Institutions
  is a viable\noption in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement for C
 atalonia to stay\nwithin the Spanish State. Rejecting assimilation on the 
 basis that a\nuni-national state is unworkable for a host of structural re
 asons\, not least\nthe lack of reform progress to date\, secession is view
 ed as the preferred\nchoice for the betterment of the region’s people.&nbs
 p\;Trevor Brown\, professor and dean of the John Glenn College of Public A
 ffairs at The Ohio State University and executive director\, State of Ohio
  Leadership Institute will be a discussant.Please contact Carol Faulkner a
 t cfaulkne@syr.edu for more information.Sponsored by the Maxwell Dean's Of
 fice
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SUMMARY:Disdain\, Distrust and Dissolution: Explaining the Catalan Independ
 ence Process - Germa Bel
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Germà\nBel: p</strong>rofessor of e
 conomics and public policy at\nUniversity of Barcelona and director of the
  Observatory of Analysis and Evaluation\nof Public Policies.&nbsp\; </p><p
 >Support for independence in Catalonia has increased\nrapidly over the pas
 t decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in\npolitical\, economic\
 , social\, academic\, and cultural fields who no longer\nbelieve that the 
 necessary reform of the Spanish Institutions is a viable\noption in terms 
 of achieving an acceptable arrangement for Catalonia to stay\nwithin the S
 panish State. Rejecting assimilation on the basis that a\nuni-national sta
 te is unworkable for a host of structural reasons\, not least\nthe lack of
  reform progress to date\, secession is viewed as the preferred\nchoice fo
 r the betterment of the region’s people.&nbsp\;Trevor Brown\, professor an
 d dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State Unive
 rsity and executive director\, State of Ohio Leadership Institute will be 
 a discussant.<br></p><p>Please contact Carol Faulkner at cfaulkne@syr.edu 
 for more information.</p><p><em>Sponsored by the Maxwell Dean's Office</em
 ></p>
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