2014
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Fausto Garasa, « Le système des comarques en Aragon : l’histoire d’une décentralisation dans la décentralisation », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.obwwkf
The post-Franquist decentralization gave to Aragon the opportunity to manage itself and transformed it into strength of proposal and creation. The Aragonese territorial policy allowed specially the creation of administrative areas (comarcas) or local authorities with legal personality. These new administrative and territorial subdivisions established in the first years of this century have a previous history and were already envisaged in the past by regionalistic movements, but they took on all their full meaning in the Spain of the autonomies and in the European context. Situated in an intermediate degree between the municipality and the province, they are intended to bring the administration closer to the local realities and thecitizens, to give access to all citizens to the services.Fruits of a political consensus and endowed with competences assigned by the autonomous Community of Aragon, they are the reflection of a decentralization which implies a capacity to redistribute the resources and the obtained means, but also to mobilize, to promote and to develop the local resources. However, this official and idealized vision of the system does not have to lead to forget inevitable weaknesses and criticism, notably in times of crisis.