The review deals with the problems of the multilevel governance in the Italian State, which has been evolving in the last decades from a centralised to a "quasi-federal" organisation. The main focus is on the legal and institutional point of view. On the one hand, the review studies the relations between the (European and) national community and the regional communities; on the other hand, it investigates the relations between the regional and the local communities. The relevant matter is discussed both through the creation of possible theoretical frameworks and through the actual observation of the legal reality. The review supports the idea of an even closer union among the European States, which in turn can provide a new institutional level, in some way reducing the national level to a "local" one. Further, the European level offers a common ground for a comparative consideration of the Italian solutions with the situation of other European countries. Finally, the review analyses the case law of the Constitutional Court, which acts in the Italian system as the last guarantor of the reciprocal competences and boundaries of the State, the Regions and the local communities.
Editor in chief Giandomenico Falcon Scientific board Sergio Bartole, Franco Bassanini, Marco Cammelli, Enzo Cheli, Fabio Merusi, Giorgio Pastori, Umberto Pototschnig, Michele Scudiero, Domenico Sorace, Rosanna Tosi Editorial board Roberto Bin, Paolo Caretti, Fulvio Cortese, Giovanni Di Cosimo, Paolo Giangaspero, Maurizio Malo, Francesco Merloni, Alessandro Morelli, Giovanni Pitruzzella, Franco Pizzetti, Giovanni Tarli Barbieri, Lorenza Violini Editorial staff Ilaria Carlotto, Fabio Corvaja, Dimitri Girotto, Cesare Mainardis, Cristina Napoli, Carlo Padula, Paola Santinello Osservatori regionali – Coordinamento generale: Alessandro Morelli, Maurizio Malo. Coordinatori dei gruppi: Michele Belletti (Regione Emilia-Romagna); Quirino Camerlengo (Regione Lombardia); Enrico Carloni (Regione Umbria); Fulvio Cortese (Provincia autonoma di Trento); Michele Della Morte (Regioni Abruzzo e Molise); Giovanni Di Cosimo (Regione Marche); Roberto Di Maria (Regione Sicilia); Eduardo Gianfrancesco (Regione Lazio); Paolo Giangaspero (Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia); Alessandro Morelli (Regioni Basilicata e Calabria); Simone Pajno (Regione Sardegna); Francesco Palermo (Provincia autonoma di Bolzano); Stefania Parisi (Regione Campania); Annamaria Poggi (Regioni Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta); Paola Santinello (Regione Veneto); Giovanni Tarli Barbieri (Regione Toscana); Vincenzo Tondi della Mura (Regione Puglia); Lara Trucco (Regione Liguria).
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The journal is rated "A", by the Italian academic research evaluation agency (Anvur), for the scientific area: 12 c1 (Diritto costituzionale).
