The New Territorial Scale Configuration in Galicia (Spain): Economic Stake or Ideological Alibi?

La recomposición de las escalas de organización territorial en Galicia (España): ¿racionalización económica o coartada ideológica?

José Ignacio Vila Vázquez (), Juan-Manuel Trillo-Santamaría and Valerià Paül
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José Ignacio Vila Vázquez: Grupo ANTE GI 1871 - USC - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain], GC (UMR_8504) - Géographie-cités - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Juan-Manuel Trillo-Santamaría: Grupo ANTE GI 1871 - USC - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain], CERTOP - Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Valerià Paül: UWA - The University of Western Australia

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Abstract: In the current economic crisis, deep changes in the local and regional modes of government are under scrutiny in several countries. Most of them, like Spain, are grounded on an efficiency rationale. Our case study deals with Galicia, a historical "nationality" with a devolved government. We present first the Spanish local and regional maps and the various tiers of government. It shows territorial ideology plays a role as important as economic issues. Then, we carry out an analysis of political discourse through a sample of newspapers and on-line articles. This analysis refers to the three most discussed territorial scales: municipal, provincial and metropolitan.

Keywords: local government; Galicia; Spain; local map; government tier; territorial ideology; ideología territorial; administraciones territoriales locales; España; organización territorial; Galice; Espagne; organisation territoriale; idéologie territoriale; collectivités locales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Espaces et sociétés (Paris, France), 2015, 1 (160-161), pp.115-133. ⟨10.3917/esp.160.0115⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/esp.160.0115

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