Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • D'Atena Antonio
    Regionalism in Italy
    in Italian Papers on Federalism , n. 1/2013 ,  2013
    The essay illustrates the evolution of Italian regionalism from the 1947 Constitution to the present day. With reference to the first stage that lasted fifty years, it examines the characteristics of the original model and dwells on its failure. The model was a complex model in which the State's tutelary role was offset by a range of constitutional safeguards granted to the Regions (the most important being the constitutionalization of the division of competences). This model, however, never succeeded in asserting itself in practice because of centralistic interpretations that ended up cannibalizing the safeguards. After highlighting the relationship between the crisis of regionalism and the (strongly centralized) structure of Italian political parties, the study emphasizes that the 1999 and 2001 constitutional reforms were extensively due to a radical change in the political system which saw new political forces come onto the scene after the disappearance of the parties that had dominated the scene during the first fifty years of republican history. Subsequently the study dwells on the difficult path of constitutional reform and on the issues that its makers had to tackle. The last part of the essay is dedicated to the new constitutional discipline whose biggest novelty is the inversion of the listing of legislative competences, thanks to which today the Italian Regions are no longer the holders of listed legislative competences, but of the general (or residual) competence. Among the other important novelties taken into account, a special mention must be made of the purpose-related (so-called finalistic) competences, the role of the principle of subsidiarity, the ordinary regional charters and the discipline of the form of government of the Regions.
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