A country"s institution has an inherent historical context. Research which neglects to explain this point will become just a study which explains the mechanical aspects and fails to fully explore the foreign institution. In this sense, this paper focu...
A country"s institution has an inherent historical context. Research which neglects to explain this point will become just a study which explains the mechanical aspects and fails to fully explore the foreign institution. In this sense, this paper focuses on the analysis of the political undertones of the abolition of the Province after the French Revolution, and the limits and the importance of regionalism which had stepped up the demands for local autonomy. Generally speaking, regionalism is a concept which is opposed to centralism, and is in correlation with concepts such as separatism and federalism. In this fact, the region in France is a very important concept when we want to understand the relationship between French republicanism and decentralization. The region in France was a symbol of resistance to Paris" political power which wanted to build up a strong centralization of power and it was an entity that these Revolutionists wanted to get rid of. On the other hand, regionalism which sprang up from the late 19th century was a political/social movement that criticized Paris" centralized political/administrative policies and promoted decentralization. From this fact we can see that the region contains multiple meanings of French republicanism and decentralization at the same time. Therefore, my analysis will examine the formation and limitations of the French regionalism in a historical context and focus on the historical implications as well as characteristics of the French regional decentralization under the Third French Republic.