Regional state

Regional state

In political geography, a regional state is a state more centralized than a federation, but less centralized than an unitary state. Regional states include federations in which power has become more centralized, and unitary states in which some power has been devolved to regional governments. This term has yet to become widely used.

Examples

* In the United Kingdom, varying degrees of power have been devolved to the governments of three of the constituent countries.
* Italy is subdivided into 20 regions (regioni, singular regione). Five of these regions enjoy a special autonomous status that enables them to enact legislation on some of their specific matters. It is further divided into 109 provinces, two of which enjoy special autonomous status as well.
* Spain is divided into 17 regions with very high levels of self-government.
* Belgium is composed of 3 states with far reaching autonomy.
* Pakistan has a federal parliamentary form of structure with provincial-level governments as well as high levels of self-government.
* Bosnia and Hercegovina Two entities Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina

ee also

*Home rule
*Autonomous entity
*Subnational entity

References

* Glassner, Martin Ira. "Political Geography, 2nd Edition." New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1995.


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