Plurinazione (Stato plurinazionale)

This lexicon entry reconstructs the idea of plurinationality and its circulation, from the Austro-Marxism of Karl Renner and Otto Bauer in fin-de-siècle Vienna, through Spanish constitutional debates, to the new Andean constitutionalism and the unsuccessful Chilean constitutional proposal. Diachronically, it distinguishes Danubian, Spanish and Andean plurinationalism; synchronically, it treats plurinationality as both a form and a type of state, contrasting multinational federal states, based on territorial self-determination and liberal multiculturalism, with plurinational autonomic states experimenting with non-territorial autonomy and intercultural constitutional engineering. A brief survey of Canada, Belgium, India, Spain and Bolivia concludes the entry.