Caroline Gray is Lecturer in Politics and Spanish at Aston University in Birmingham and Deputy Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe. She specialises in the politics of Spain and wider Europe, focusing on nationalist movements, political decentralisation and the party system. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford for her BA and MSt degrees, before later completing an ESRC-funded PhD in Politics at the University of Liverpool.

Across Europe and beyond, economic woes in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 unleashed fundamental changes in politics, with new parties emerging and populism surging.

1 Territorial politics and the party system in Spain

2 The political consequences of the 2008 financial crisis: Spain in European context

3 Decentralisation and its discontents: The role of the financial crisis in accelerating the Catalan independence movement

4 Basque nationalism: A longer-term quest for co-sovereignty

5 Territorial politics and the evolution of the Spanish left

6 Territorial politics and the evolution of the Spanish right

7 Conclusion: Continuity or change?

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