Publicado en: Regional Studies 36(4): 399-408, 2002
Since the transition to democracy in the late 1970s, Spain has undergone a process of deep decentralization and an incipient federalization. This article analyses the main features of such processes underlying the high level of home rule achieved by the 17 Comunidades Autónomas, when compared to other federal-like systems in the world. Accomodating Spain's secular diversity appears to be in line with the increasing role of meso life in the process of Europeanization.
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