Territorial decentralization, territorial autonomy and political regionalization

Abstract

SUMMARY: I. INTRODUCTION. - II. POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON AND DEMAND: 1. THE CRISIS OF THE CENTRALIZED NATIONAL STATE. 2. THE CRISIS OF CLASSIC FORMS OF STATE AND THE OVERCOMING OF DICOTOMY: UNITARY STATE / FEDERAL STATE. 3. THE CENTRALISM OF THE OLD FEDERATIONS. 4. THE NEW FEDERALISMS. 5. THE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE UNITARY STATES. - III. THE REGIONAL STATE FORMULA: 1. BACKGROUND. 2. THE ITALIAN REGIONAL STATE. 3. T HE STATE OF COMMUNITIES AND REGIONS OF BELGIUM. 4. T HE STATE OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES SPANISH. 5. THE POLITICAL REGIONALIZATION OF FRANCE AND THE REGIONAL STATE. 6. OTHER EXPERIENCES OF POLITICAL REGIONALIZATION. - IV. CONCLUSION.