Sort each instrument by whether it is MULTILATERAL or BILATERAL.
Groups: Multilateral · Bilateral
- A negotiated financing arrangement with a single community
- A joint plan agreed across all communities
- The Conference of Presidents
- A sectoral conference of state and community ministers
- A commission between the state and one community
Hints
- One column includes every community at once; the other involves the state and one.
- Anything specific to a single community is bilateral.
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Multilateral: A sectoral conference of state and community ministers, The Conference of Presidents, A joint plan agreed across all communities
Bilateral: A commission between the state and one community, A negotiated financing arrangement with a single community
The recurring criticism of Spanish intergovernmental relations is that the second column dominates the first. Bilateral negotiation suits communities with strong bargaining positions and weakens the system's capacity to reach general agreements, though whether that is a design defect or an unavoidable consequence of asymmetry is contested.
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