Abstract: | The progressive federalization of the Spanish Estado de lasAutonomías (State of the Autonomies) is in accordancewith a model of multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence. The processof territorial accommodation in Spain relates substate ethnicmobilization with the competitive interplay among Spanish regionsand nationalities in pursuit of political and economic power.The regions and nationalities also strive for the achievementof legitimation for their institutional development. This articlereviews developments and features that have set this type ofplural competition and solidarity into play in Spain. |