Editing Autonomous communities of Spain (section)

==Decentralisation model==
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The Spanish model is generally considered by foreign political scientists and scholars as "a federal system with certain peculiarities".{{sfn|Colino|2020|p=75}} However it is also described as a decentralised<ref name="sinopsis145">{{cite web|url=https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/sinopsis/sinopsis.jsp?art=145&tipo=2|title=Sinópsis of Article 145|work=Constitución española (con sinópsis)|last=Bacigalupo Sagesse|first=Mariano|publisher=[[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|Congress of the Deputies]]|date=June 2005|access-date=28 January 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Ruíz-Huerta Carbonell|Herrero Alcalde|2008|p=ix}} unitary country. While sovereignty is vested in the nation as a whole, represented in the central institutions of government, the nation has, to varying degrees, [[devolution|devolved]] power to the communities.

This unique framework of territorial administration has been labeled by the [[Constitutional Court of Spain|Constitutional Court]] as the "State of Autonomous Communities",{{efn-lr|"State of Autonomies" (in Spanish: ''Estado de las Autonomías'', in Basque: ''Autonomien Estatuaren'', in Catalan/Valencian: ''Estat de les Autonomies'', in Galician: ''Estado das Autonomías''). Also known as "Autonomous State"<!-- ambiguous English meaning, direct translation of "Estado Autonómico" -->{{sfn|Arbós Marín|2013|page=375}} (in Spanish: ''Estado Autonómico'', in Basque: ''Autonomia Estatuko'', or ''Estatuaren'', in Catalan/Valencian: ''Estat Autonòmic'', in Galician: ''Estado Autonómico'')}} to avoid implying either a [[Unitary state|unitary]] or [[federation|federal]] model.<ref>{{cite web |title=Synopsis of Article 137 of the Spanish Constitucion |url=https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/sinopsis/sinopsis.jsp?art=137&tipo=2 |publisher=Congreso de los Diputados [Congress] |access-date=11 June 2023 |year=2011 |language=Spanish |ref={{harvid| Synopsis of Article 137|2011}}}} paragraph 2-4</ref> Some scholars have referred to the resulting system as a federal system in all but name, or a "federation without federalism".{{sfn|Arbós Marín|2013|page=375}}