Bulletin n. 2/2007 | ||
October 2007 | ||
Depussay Laurent |
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L’unité étatique au moyen des asymétries institutionnelles | ||
in Revue française d'administration publique , N. 121-122 , 2007 , 35-48 | ||
The statutory diversification of territorial entities, regions in particular, is increasing within traditionally unitary States. The development of these institutional asymmetries raises the question of whether the unitary state should be maintained, abandoned, or redefined. This question is often approached solely from the point of view of horizontal asymmetries – between authorities – a situation favourable to a territorialisation of law, considered detrimental to the unity of the State. On the other hand, if we resituate this somewhat rapid analysis in the more global, often neglected perspective of vertical asymmetries – between the authorities and the State – the diversity of territories then becomes a vector of territorial unity. | ||