The Autonomous Communities: Politics and Economics

J R Lasuén Sancho
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J R Lasuén Sancho: Concreso de los Disputados, Madrid, Spain

Environment and Planning C, 1987, vol. 5, issue 3, 251-256

Abstract: In this paper it is argued that there is a built-in dilemma in the 1978 Spanish Constitution which can be understood and solved only by comparing the ‘formal’ and the ‘real’ Constitutions of the country. The present shared quasi-federalism will prove inadequate in the long term because it fails to recognize that, for most of the time, political centralization and economic growth cannot occur together in Spain. This fact arises because Spain is a country with an ‘inverted centre-periphery’; the political and economic centres are at different locations. As a result future policy should be orientated towards greater decentralized powers, but with more effective integration of the nationalist parties of the Autonomous Communities into national policies.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1068/c050251

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