ABSTRACT
Regionalism has never been as popular a movement in Britain as in France. It has, in fact, been confined to a few scholars— geographers, economists and political philosophers—and it is only in the last few years that it has become a subject of wider interest and concern. This interest centres on the administrative aspect, that is, the question of reorganization of local government districts and the devolution of administrative authority from Whitehall. Indeed, Regionalism is usually considered in this country as synonymous with administrative devolution in a framework of new local government units.
