RT Journal Article
T1 From Political Consensus to Political Conflict and Back Again: Language Public Policy in Galicia (1989–2020)
T2 Language Public Policy in Galicia (1989–2020)
A1 Losada Trabada, Antón
K1 Public policy
K1 Language policy
K1 Political actors
K1 Identity
AB Language public policy is a key issue in Galician politics. Its symbolic uses have proven to be a powerful political resource in partisan competition. This article analyzes the strategies of the three main Galician political parties to test three related hypotheses about how political competition and language public policy are linked: (i) adversary language public policy works as a valid strategy for opposition and electoral campaigning, but (ii) it becomes a major policy problem once in office, both for nationalist and non-nationalist parties, and (iii) advocating for careful balance between languages is the best political strategy for language public policy once in office. The Spanish and Galician right-wing party, Popular Party—PP/PPdeG—which was in office between 1989 and 2005, has strategically promoted language public policies based on an alleged equilibrium between the Spanish language—Castellano—and the Galician language—Galego—to gain nationalist conservative voters and to divide the nationalist political space. During this period, the nationalist—Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG)—and socialist—Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia (PSdeG/PSOE)—opposition have supported positive discrimination for the Galego language. Political change in 2005 switched their positions; PP stood for increasing protection for Castellano, while the new nationalist and left-wing government promoted a stronger status for Galego. PP’s return to office in 2009 has switched the positions again.
PB Taylor and Francis
YR 2022
FD 2022-07-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43284
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43284
LA eng
NO Losada Trabada, A. (2022). From Political Consensus to Political Conflict and Back Again: Language Public Policy in Galicia (1989–2020). Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 28(4), 448–470.
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 27 Jul 2022, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2022.2101185
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026