VOCI, Pietro

La décentralisation administraive et les autotonomies locales - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1993

The Constitution of 1948 gives a great importance to administrative decentralization under various forms: it is even considered as one of the fundamental principles of the Republican State. But the implementation of these principles has been very slow. The regional reform, launched in 1970, has led to an important transfer of administrative powers to the regions, with a predominance of political upon administratives guidance. A reform of the organization and functions of other local authorities has had to wait until 1990. But there is a dramatic lack of reforms of miniterial departments and field services of state administration