Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
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
    • Aja Eliseo, Colino César
    Multilevel structures, coordination and partisan politics in Spanish intergovernmental relations
    in Comparative European Politics , vol. 12, n. 4-5, july-september ,  2014 ,  444-467
    ABSTRACT: The article discusses the historical evolution of the federalized Spanish state and the intergovernmental institutions that have emerged in this process. Although vertical multilateral bodies dominate, they coexist with vertical bilateral cooperation bodies, deriving from the decentralization process and the original asymmetries in regional powers, mainly used for conflict resolution among governmental levels. Owing to the lack of horizontal coordination among Autonomous Communities, however, coordination remains difficult. While political parties and political dynamics in Spain have represented alternative informal mechanisms for intergovernmental relations (IGR) due to a growing level of party congruence in recent years, the proliferation of coalition governments in many Autonomous Communities has made IGR more difficult to manage. Important is the role of non-state-wide parties governing on the regional level: these parties have conditioned the degree of legal conflict. Throughout the last decade, they thereby have achieved the decentralization of powers and devolution of regional resources.
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