Regional Autonomy

Regional autonomy is the term for the decentralization of governance to outlying regions. Recent examples of disputes over autonomy include:

  • The Basque region of Spain
  • The Catalonian region of Spain
  • The disputes over autonomy of provinces in Indonesia.

Current examples of autonomous regions include the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China and the Cherokee Nation in the United States.

Famous quotes containing the word autonomy:

    “A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)