This book, which is the result of a project of Research of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2007), presents an overview of theoretical-political thought as a challenge to centralism, starting from the late Middle Ages and the Modern Age through to the twentieth century.
As against a 'vertical' vision of European politics which, from Machiavelli to Mosca, favours the hierarchical nature of power relations, the essays collected here are presented as a number of brief chapters in the history of the 'horizontal paradigm' in European political thought. They demonstrate the wealth and the persistence of a tradition and of the myriad experiences and theorisations that have, in effect, proposed forms of decentralisation and of association frequently coexisting with centralism, as in the case of the autonomies within the system of the great national states.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1649-2033
Book Title
Challenging Centralism: Decentramento e autonomie nel pensiero politico europeo
Editors
Lea Campos Boralevi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
272
Publication Year
2011
Copyright Information
© 2011 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-023-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-018-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-023-5
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-025-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-669-6
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986