Editing Autonomy (section)

==Politics==
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In governmental parlance, autonomy refers to self-governance. An example of an autonomous jurisdiction was the former United States governance of the [[Philippine Islands]]. The ''Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916'' provided the framework for the creation of an autonomous government under which the [[Filipino people]] had broader domestic autonomy than previously, although it reserved certain privileges to the United States to protect its [[sovereignty|sovereign]] rights and interests.<ref name=CorpusJuris>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Philippine Bill of 1902 (note: Philippine Autonomy Act) |encyclopedia=Corpus Juris |url=http://thecorpusjuris.com/constitutions/philippine-autonomy-act.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525075502/http://www.thecorpusjuris.com/constitutions/philippine-autonomy-act.php |archive-date=2016-05-25 |date=July 1902 }}</ref> Other examples include [[Kosovo]] (as the [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo]]) under the former Yugoslav government of [[Josip Broz Tito|Marshal Tito]]<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Melissa Katherine |last1=Bokovoy |first2=Jill A. |last2=Irvine |first3=Carol S. |last3=Lilly |year=1997 |title=State-society relations in Yugoslavia, 1945–1992 |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/statesocietyrela00meli/page/295 295–301] |isbn=978-0312126902 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/statesocietyrela00meli/page/295 }}</ref> and [[Puntland]] Autonomous Region within [[Federal Republic of Somalia]].

Although often being territorially defined as self-governments, autonomous self-governing institutions may take a [[Non-territorial autonomy|non-territorial]] form. Such non-territorial solutions are, for example, cultural autonomy in [[Estonia]] and [[Hungary]], national minority councils in [[Serbia]] or Sámi parliaments in [[Nordic countries]].<ref>Coakley, John. "Introduction: Dispersed Minorities and Non-Territorial Autonomy". ''Ethnopolitics'' 15, nr 1 (2016): 1–23.</ref><ref>Prina, Federica. "Nonterritorial Autonomy and Minority (Dis)Empowerment: Past, Present, and Future". ''Nationalities Papers'' 48, nr 3 (2020): 425–434</ref>