Abstract
The Basque nationalist party : A peripheric and totalizing organization As early as the first general elections of the Spanish democratic transition (1977), the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) asserted its position as the central element of local politics. An embodiment of historic nationalism, a creator and a manager of Basque identity, not without competitors, an organizational model for the Autonomous Community, proved thanks to its mobilizing power able to create an extreme identification between country and party. Since the 1986 secession, the PNV is no longer the totalizing movement of first post-Franco decade. Its evolution reveals the ambiguity inherent to the nature of a regional party aiming at a dominant role.

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