Cinquanta anni di regionalismo, fra ‘libertà dallo Stato’ e culto per l’uniformità

The author affords an account of how regionalism’s main features have been related in the Italian constitutional practice. In particular, attention is driven on the seemingly contradictory relationship between a longstanding practice of uniformity and a recurring quest for “freedom from the State”. The paper tends to demonstrate that such relationship is far from contradictory, and that, on the other hand, it obliterates the true constitutional values regarding regional autonomy. Regional autonomy, Uniformity, Democracy, Relationship between legislation and administration, Decentralisation,