The review deals with the problems of the multilevel governance in the Italian State, which has been evolving in the last decades from a centralised to a "quasi-federal" organisation. The main focus is on the legal and institutional point of view. On the one hand, the review studies the relations between the (European and) national community and the regional communities; on the other hand, it investigates the relations between the regional and the local communities. The relevant matter is discussed both through the creation of possible theoretical frameworks and through the actual observation of the legal reality. The review supports the idea of an even closer union among the European States, which in turn can provide a new institutional level, in some way reducing the national level to a "local" one. Further, the European level offers a common ground for a comparative consideration of the Italian solutions with the situation of other European countries. Finally, the review analyses the case law of the Constitutional Court, which acts in the Italian system as the last guarantor of the reciprocal competences and boundaries of the State, the Regions and the local communities.

Editor in chief Giovanni Tarli Barbieri (Università di Firenze) Scientific board Sergio Bartole, Franco Bassanini, Marco Cammelli, Enzo Cheli, Alfredo Corpaci, Fabio Merusi, Michele Scudiero, Domenico Sorace, Rosanna Tosi Editorial board Roberto Bin, Maurizio Malo, Paolo Caretti, Francesco Merloni, Ilaria Carlotto, Alessandro Morelli, Fulvio Cortese, Cristina Napoli, Fabio Corvaja, Carlo Padula, Giovanni Di Cosimo, Giovanni Pitruzzella, Giandomenico Falcon, Franco Pizzetti, Paolo Giangaspero, Paola Santinello, Dimitri Girotto, Giovanni Tarli Barbieri, Cesare Mainardis, Lorenza Violini Regional groups Michele Belletti (Emilia-Romagna), Roberto di Maria (Sicilia), Cristina Bertolino (Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta), Paolo Giangaspero (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Quirino Camerlengo (Lombardia), Alessandro Morelli (Basilicata e Calabria), Enrico Carloni (Umbria), Francesco Palermo (Provincia di Bolzano), Ines Ciolli (Lazio), Stefania Parisi (Campania), Fulvio Cortese (Provincia di Trento), Paola Santinello (Veneto), Andrea Deffenu (Sardegna), Giovanni Tarli Barbieri (Toscana), Michele Della Morte (Abruzzo e Molise), Vincenzo Tondi della Mura (Puglia), Giovanni di Cosimo (Marche), Lara Trucco (Liguria) Editorial Assistants Edoardo Caterina, Andrea Conzutti, Alberto Di Chiara, Giuseppe Donato, Fabio Ferrari, Giacomo Menegus, Paolo Pinto, Giuseppina Scala, Benedetta Vimercati