TY - JOUR T1 - L'exercici de competències autonòmiques en matèria de Seguretat Social A1 - Gala Durán, Carolina PB - Generalitat de Catalunya: Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics YR - 2006 UL - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000096227 AB - One of the politically more controversial areas of distribution of powers between the Autonomous Communities and the Spanish central government, has been that related to social security, most particularly its economic regime. In contrast, actual constitutional conflicts and their corresponding ruling by the Spanish Constitutional Court-unlike its political counterpart-have been rather lacking, and are reduced to three rulings that mark the progress from a highly restrictive posture for the Spanish Autonomous Communities to one that is somewhat more favourable to the possibilities that these have for taking action, by recognising certain responsibilities of an instrumental character. At all events, beyond this discrete progress, the final bases supporting each of the Constitutional Court's rulings are essentially the same, and are yet to resolve many of the questions surrounding the distribution of powers in this field, especially in the economic regime. The purpose of this article is to analyse the situation existing prior to the approval of the new Catalan Statute of Autonomy, the position of the Constitutional Court, and an analysis of the changes brought about by the new Statute, as well as of its possible future effects ER -