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This article suggests a thought and analysis the mismatch between the implementation of the State of Autonomies and the scarce cooperation and collaboration between Autonomous Communities in the face of a set of contemporary urban and territorial phenomena that clearly goes beyond regional political–administrative limits and in turn define new territorial areas of intermediate scale. First, the paper contextualises the fit of interregional cooperation in the Spanish legislation and points out the possible factors conditioning the scarce use of this instrument (collaboration agreements and cooperation agreements between Autonomous Communities). Second, the initiatives and files collected in the Senate database are analysed and characterised. This analysis evidences the insufficient degree of interregional cooperation. The paper ends with a discussion in regard to the importance of this instrument for responding to common problems and establishing development projects in cross–border territories.

El artículo distingue y analiza dos generaciones de legislaciones autonómicas sobre la iniciativa legislativa popular. La primera de estas generaciones normativas, que daría comienzo en el año 1984, se caracteriza por configurar dicha institución de forma muy restrictiva y trajo como consecuencia su inoperatividad. En la segunda generación, en cambio, que se iniciaría en el año 2006, se facilita la participación ciudadana en el ámbito legislativo a través de la iniciativa popular. El trabajo también estudia el caso concreto de la Comunitat Valenciana y su normativa relativa a la iniciativa legislativa popular, encuadrable todavía en las legislaciones autonómicas de la primera generación. The article distinguishes and analyzes two generations of regional laws on popular legislative initiative. The first of these regulations generations, which would begin in 1984, is characterized by that institution set very narrowly and resulted in its inoperability. In the second generation, however, which would begin in 2006, citizen participation in the legislative sphere through the popular initiative is facilitated. The work also studies the specific case of Valencian Community and its rules on the popular legislative initiative, which can still be included among the regional laws of the first generation. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3041163

Estamos asistiendo a un intenso debate en torno a la necesidad de generar un proceso regeneración democrática en el contexto actual de la crisis institucional y desafección política. En esta línea, algunas Comunidades Autónomas han emprendido el camino de institucionalizar nuevas oportunidades de participación de los ciudadanos en los procesos de decisión pública. Fenómeno que se hace más patente desde la aprobación de los nuevos Estatutos de Autonomía, en los que la participación ciudadana, definida en ellos como derecho, principio y objetivo básico de la Comunidad Autónoma, debe ser desarrollada normativamente por el legislador autonómico. Se analizarán en esta ponencia, desde una perspectiva crítica, las normas jurídicas de referencia y sus posibilidades de implementación práctica para constatar si las Comunidades Autónomas ofrecen un marco más adecuado a la democracia participativa. In this era of institutional crisis and political disaffection, there is significant debate about the need to create democratic reform. With this in mind, some of Spain's Autonomous Communities have taken steps to institutionalise opportunities for citizens to participate in public decision-making processes. This is especially apparent in the newly adopted Statutes of Autonomy. In the Statutes, citizen participation is defined as a right, principle and basic objective of the Autonomous Community, for which laws must be developed by the legislating authority of that community. This paper will present a critical analysis of these legal standards and their potential for practical implementation, in order to investigate whether Autonomous Communities provide a better framework for participatory democracy. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3048827

Although Catalonia’s institutional future remains uncertain without any agreement between the Spanish central and Catalan governments comparable to the one firmed by David Cameron and Alex Salmond for a self-determination referendum on September, 2014, the Catalan independence claim provokes a more and more intense European political debate.

The Spanish Constitution of 1978 shares the power between the State and the Autonomous Communities. Over the past three decades, the principle of this "compound state" has become reality. A large amount of social, economical or environmental responsabilities have been transfered to the autonomous communities, which have built strong peripherical powerships. In this general frame, the article analyses the last period (2004-2010) of the commmunitie’s political emancipation and hightlights president Zapatero’s strategy at two different (and interconnected) levels : from one part, the renewal of the « statutos » (the fundamental law governing autonomous communities) ; from the other part, the choice of criterias ruling the distribution of regional financement. This long and conflictual process gives the opportunity to reconsider the question of the spanish institutional and territorial organization through the concept of fragmentation.

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