Asymmetrical decentralization in Spain – implications for politics and political system/ Decentralizacja niesymetryczna w Hiszpanii – implikacje polityczne i ustrojowe

Globalization processes, weakening position of national states, integration processes, society changes and democratization of systems are just a few of the main determinants of dynamic changes taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Their effects become revealed by, for example, an increasing independece tendencies among nations without their own countries. Spain, for centuries forming a heterogeneous state system, after the fall of the Francoist regime and facing the need for system transformation, has implemented many innovative solutions, especially in the field of territorial decentralization. The intensification of secession demands from the part of autonomous Spanish communities, seems to make introduction of reforms inevitable, reforms that would have to maintain the unity of the monarchy, and on the other hand, to live up to the expectations of the regions.