O Poder Local face aos desafios do século XXI: Desejos e Realidade

The history of the development of the modern Portuguese state shows, since the liberal revolution (1820), many difficulties in resolving issues relating to local government planning. Apart from the turbulent history of municipalities in the days of absolute monarchy and of liberalism, the Portuguese Republican ideology was far beyond what was expected. Much more serious in the case of the Salazar regime, a regime which sought to impose the state as the center of planning, settling the long history of subsidiary municipalities.