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Regions in France. Geographic giants, but political dwarves?
[Les régions en France. Géants géographiques, mais nains politiques ?]

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  • Gérard-François Dumont

    (ENeC - Espaces, Nature et Culture - UP4 - Université Paris-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

In France, after the disappearance of the provinces at the time of a royalty that had become absolute, the importance of the regional fact took time to emerge to finally materialize with the re-gionalization of 1982. Since then, numerous legislative texts have modified the competences of the regions and the way in which they can exercise them. In addition, a drastic reduction in their num-ber in metropolitan France has been implemented since 2016. In this context, this analysis focuses on three questions : how did France end up undertaking regionalization ? How can we consider the mapping of regions in France compared to other European democracies ? Do the competences avai-lable to the regions give them wide scope for action or, on the contrary, is there a contrast between their vast geographical perimeter and their political importance ?

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  • Gérard-François Dumont, 2019. "Regions in France. Geographic giants, but political dwarves? [Les régions en France. Géants géographiques, mais nains politiques ?]," Post-Print halshs-02952084, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-02952084
    DOI: 10.3917/lap.008.0001
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