FEDERALISMO E COMPORTAMENTI FEDERALISTICI
Journal: Il Politico
Year: 2022

The basic assumption of this contribution is that federalism cannot be reduced to the institutional aspect alone. On the contrary, federal institutions stand up, over time, only if they are underpinned by an autonomous social behaviour that can be identified as true federalist behaviour. In fact, only if there is a kind of split loyalism towards the different institutional levels in which a political community is organised can one speak of federalism. If there is no federal society, there can be