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.
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“When autonomy is respected, the two-year-old does not carry this unfinished task into later stages of growth. In adolescence, the youngster will again concentrate on independence, but he won’t have to blast the roof off the second time around if it is already well established.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)
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