Bulletin n. 0/2004 | ||
December 2004 | ||
Ortega, Luis |
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The Decentralization Alternatives on the Spanish Constitutional System | ||
in European public Law , Vol. 10 Issue 3 - Sep2004 , 2004 , 469-481 | ||
In Spain, within the constitutional period which starts with the Cadiz Constitution of 1812, the subject of political decentralization has been one of the four big concerns that have traditionally divided the "two Spains," summarized very schematically in its maximum poles of tension: the first, the centralist, catholic, monarchic and capitalist Spain and the second, the federal, secular, republican and socialist Spain. In Spain decentralization has been a process derived from the concept of democracy itself as well as the recognition of the nationalisms | ||