¿ES ESPAÑA UN ESTADO CASIFEDERAL EN POLÍTICA CULTURAL? ARTICULACIÓN Y CONFLICTO ENTRE LA POLÍTICA CULTURAL DEL ESTADO CENTRAL Y LA DEL GOBIERNO DE CATALUÑA

Right back from the 1970, comparative policy analyses have been emphasizing how cultural policy has moved towards models administratively decentralized and respectful with cultural plurality. Spain, often characterized as a widely decentralized country, has also been defined as a country of rich cultural and linguistic diversity. Its institutional structure, halfway between centralist and federal political system, has also been described as a quasi-federal system. However, from the cultural policy sector, can be said that Spain is a quasi-federal political system? In this article we argue that, despite the broadly decentralized management of cultural policies, Central Government’s most recent legal and organizational processes are far from developing a plurinational federal system and are actually growingly oriented towards recentralization and symmetrisation