A New Look at Federalism: Italy Decentralizes

Issue Date April 2002
Volume 13
Issue 2
Page Numbers 126-140
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Italy has long mixed great local and regional diversity with a unitary approach to governance. In October 2001, however, Italian voters approved a series of changes to their country’s Constitution that could mark a decisive turn toward federalism.

About the Author

Ugo M. Amoretti is a researcher in political science at the University of Genoa. He holds a doctorate from the University of Florence, where his research focused on comparative federalism. From 1998 to 1999, and again in the summer of 2000, he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center of International Studies.

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