Reflections on regional autonomy in the age of technological society

Abstract

The paper examines some aspects of regional autonomy in the era of technological transitions, with particular attention to the distribution of public decision-making capacity, bearing in mind the propensity of technologies to standardization, and to centralization, which tend to reduce the contemplation of varieties, diversities, peculiarities, in short, of the very essence, of the founding reason for the recognition of autonomous decision-making powers.