Regionalismo y democracia en Italia. De la Asamblea Constituyente a la falta de aplicación constitucional (1946-1976)

rom the Resistance to Fascism, until the reforms of the 1970s in Italy, the issue of local autonomies has been at the center of political and legal debates. This essay aims to analyze this historical period by focusing on the most original ideas and proposals, often minority and neglected by historiography, aware of the close link between autonomism and democracy. The latest reforms adopted in Italy urge us to retrace Italian and European constitutional history with attention to the evolution of the institutions of decentralization and to reflect anew and in an unprecedented manner on the meaning of autonomy, which should not equate to the “secession” of the richest regions, but to solidarity between the various communities that make up a nation.