Nacinalismo e partiti "statali". IL socialismo nei Paesi baschi fra tradizione e rinnovamento identitario

Nationalism and statewide parties. Socialism in the Basque Country between political tradition and identity innovation In recent years, scholarship on Basque socialism has stressed the role of its leadership in the political events that have characterized the Transition to democracy in Spain and in Euskadi. The new socialist leadership had to affirm a radical and pseudo-nationalist identity to innovate the image of a party that was meant to be statewide. The renewal of the Socialist Party in the Basque Country was the local counterpart of the innovation of Spanish socialism, in a social and cultural context where nationalisms have always received a great deal of support. Received: 27-08-2015 Admitted: 15-04-2016