TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualisations of Territorial Cohesion in Central European border regions
AU - Demeterova, Barbara
AU - Goodwin-Hawkins, Bryonny
AU - Fischer, Tatjana
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [grant number 726950]; Department of Social Affairs of the Federal State of Lower Austria. We thank the research participants for their time, their insights and their overall confidence to support this research. Furthermore, we want to thank the reviewers for their helpful comments. Demeterova and Goodwin-Hawkins wish to acknowledge the RSA, AESOP, ERSA and the European Committee of the Regions for funding and facilitating their participation in the 2018 European Week of Regions and Cities, where an early version of this article was presented. This article should not be taken to represent the opinion of any of the bodies acknowledged above.
Funding Information:
At present INTERREG aims to overcome disadvantages resulting from administrative barriers between neighbouring regions (Dühr, Stead, & Zonneveld, , p. 294), and to support cooperation across member states by funding projects that address shared challenges. ‘Cooperation’ is defined through three major strands: cross-border (INTERREG A), transnational (INTERREG B), or interregional (INTERREG C) and supported by the Pre-Accession (IPA) and the European Neighbourhood (ENI) Instruments.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Despite decades of spending, Cohesion Policy appears unable to fully address growing national disparities and increasing ‘roll-out’ nationalism. In the present study we discuss regional effects of ‘fuzzy’ policy concepts, such as EU’s policy for Territorial Cohesion, in Central European borderlands from a stakeholder perspective. Identifying how key policy documents have framed the discussion of Territorial Cohesion, we furthermore demonstrate the differing ways regional stakeholders have interpreted this vision. By showing how multiple translations have produced dynamics that create a circular process, we conclude that this process leads towards non-comparable outcomes, increased misunderstanding, while fuelling EU scepticism.
AB - Despite decades of spending, Cohesion Policy appears unable to fully address growing national disparities and increasing ‘roll-out’ nationalism. In the present study we discuss regional effects of ‘fuzzy’ policy concepts, such as EU’s policy for Territorial Cohesion, in Central European borderlands from a stakeholder perspective. Identifying how key policy documents have framed the discussion of Territorial Cohesion, we furthermore demonstrate the differing ways regional stakeholders have interpreted this vision. By showing how multiple translations have produced dynamics that create a circular process, we conclude that this process leads towards non-comparable outcomes, increased misunderstanding, while fuelling EU scepticism.
KW - Territorial Cohesion
KW - Cross-border cooperation
KW - Policy transfer
KW - regional dynamics
KW - Central Europe
KW - INTERREG cross-border cooperation
KW - policy Transfer
KW - European Territorial Cohesion
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85078463078
U2 - 10.1080/09654313.2020.1716692
DO - 10.1080/09654313.2020.1716692
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 28
SP - 2287
EP - 2306
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 12
ER -