Erika Arban is Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, and Lecturer in Comparative Federalism at the University of Antwerp. Giuseppe Martinico is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. Francesco Palermo is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Verona and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen.

• Introduction: why is the trajectory of Italian regionalism comparatively important and what does it have to offer? Part I: Federalism and regionalism: the Italian context1. An intellecual history of Italian regionalism2. The new “form of government” in the reforms of the Italian regional system3. Federalism and regionalism in constitutional adjudication4. Intergovernmental relationships in Italy: a feeble but useful model5. Financial relations in the Italian regional system6. Party systems in the Italian regionsPart II: Italy’s major contributions to the global discussion: Italian regionalism in the global debate7. The Italian regions in the European Union: story of an unaccomplished relationship8. Asymmetries in the Italian regional system and their role model9. Local governments and metropolitan cities: the Italian experience and its comparative relevance10. Loyal cooperation: systemic principle of Italy’s regionalism?11. Federalism, regionalism, and the principle of subsidiarityConcluding remarks: Regionalism: Italian lessons offered to complex states seeking legitimate and effective governance while being reluctant to federalism

"despite mainly focusing on the Italian case, the book is clearly ambitious in its scope and its significance goes beyond one country. All contributors bring new evidence and offer original insights to debates on federalism, regionalism and decentralization. …one key lesson can be drawn from this collection of studies: a regional state can provide a flexible (and original) model of autonomy and territorial governance for countries that seek to accommodate cultural or socio-economic diversity without formally splitting sovereignty."Davide Vampa, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52:1, e5`The book is … warmly recommended not just to scholars interested in Italian constitutional law, but to a global audience of federalists, regionalists and others dealing with the constitutional accommodation of diverse territories in a nation state.’ Anna Gamper, European Public Law 28, no. 2 (2022): 321–32

Erika Arban is Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, and Lecturer in Comparative Federalism at the University of Antwerp. Giuseppe Martinico is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. Francesco Palermo is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Verona and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen.

• Introduction: why is the trajectory of Italian regionalism comparatively important and what does it have to offer? Part I: Federalism and regionalism: the Italian context1. An intellecual history of Italian regionalism2. The new “form of government” in the reforms of the Italian regional system3. Federalism and regionalism in constitutional adjudication4. Intergovernmental relationships in Italy: a feeble but useful model5. Financial relations in the Italian regional system6. Party systems in the Italian regionsPart II: Italy’s major contributions to the global discussion: Italian regionalism in the global debate7. The Italian regions in the European Union: story of an unaccomplished relationship8. Asymmetries in the Italian regional system and their role model9. Local governments and metropolitan cities: the Italian experience and its comparative relevance10. Loyal cooperation: systemic principle of Italy’s regionalism?11. Federalism, regionalism, and the principle of subsidiarityConcluding remarks: Regionalism: Italian lessons offered to complex states seeking legitimate and effective governance while being reluctant to federalism

"despite mainly focusing on the Italian case, the book is clearly ambitious in its scope and its significance goes beyond one country. All contributors bring new evidence and offer original insights to debates on federalism, regionalism and decentralization. …one key lesson can be drawn from this collection of studies: a regional state can provide a flexible (and original) model of autonomy and territorial governance for countries that seek to accommodate cultural or socio-economic diversity without formally splitting sovereignty."Davide Vampa, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52:1, e5`The book is … warmly recommended not just to scholars interested in Italian constitutional law, but to a global audience of federalists, regionalists and others dealing with the constitutional accommodation of diverse territories in a nation state.’ Anna Gamper, European Public Law 28, no. 2 (2022): 321–32

Erika Arban is Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, and Lecturer in Comparative Federalism at the University of Antwerp. Giuseppe Martinico is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. Francesco Palermo is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Verona and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen.

• Introduction: why is the trajectory of Italian regionalism comparatively important and what does it have to offer? Part I: Federalism and regionalism: the Italian context1. An intellecual history of Italian regionalism2. The new “form of government” in the reforms of the Italian regional system3. Federalism and regionalism in constitutional adjudication4. Intergovernmental relationships in Italy: a feeble but useful model5. Financial relations in the Italian regional system6. Party systems in the Italian regionsPart II: Italy’s major contributions to the global discussion: Italian regionalism in the global debate7. The Italian regions in the European Union: story of an unaccomplished relationship8. Asymmetries in the Italian regional system and their role model9. Local governments and metropolitan cities: the Italian experience and its comparative relevance10. Loyal cooperation: systemic principle of Italy’s regionalism?11. Federalism, regionalism, and the principle of subsidiarityConcluding remarks: Regionalism: Italian lessons offered to complex states seeking legitimate and effective governance while being reluctant to federalism

"despite mainly focusing on the Italian case, the book is clearly ambitious in its scope and its significance goes beyond one country. All contributors bring new evidence and offer original insights to debates on federalism, regionalism and decentralization. …one key lesson can be drawn from this collection of studies: a regional state can provide a flexible (and original) model of autonomy and territorial governance for countries that seek to accommodate cultural or socio-economic diversity without formally splitting sovereignty."Davide Vampa, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52:1, e5`The book is … warmly recommended not just to scholars interested in Italian constitutional law, but to a global audience of federalists, regionalists and others dealing with the constitutional accommodation of diverse territories in a nation state.’ Anna Gamper, European Public Law 28, no. 2 (2022): 321–32