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Grégory Marie-Ange |
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Province/dipartimenti vs. regioni: la controversia sul livello intermedio in Italia e Francia | ||
in Nazioni e Regioni , n. 7 , 2016 , 27-46 | ||
The policies of reduction of public spending carried out since the 2008 financial crisis have triggered a whole series of territorial reforms in Europe. If regional power is more marked in Italy than in France, the question of its web-like territorial structure has been posed in similar terms. This article analyzes the arguments of the controversy on the suppression of the intermediate level (provinces and departments) and on the nature of the political blocs that contribute to its maintenance (at least as state constituency). Full text available online download | ||