Active borders and local politicians as key agents of the Europeanization: cross border regions as an institutional attempt at boosting a European public sphere
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Active borders and local politicians as key agents of the Europeanization: cross border regions as an institutional attempt at boosting a European public sphere
Original language description
The aim of the research article is to present opinions of mayors and mayoress from Euroregions Niesse/Nisa/Nysa and Šumava/Bayerischer Wald/Mühlviertel, who are important local agents of cross-border cooperation (CBC). We want to answer the question, whether and to what extent a positive perception of borders and CBC as well as a positive experience with cross-border activities contribute to the process of horizontal (active border) Europeanization and development of complementary and inclusive collective identities. We collected responses to our questionnaire from 79 mayors. Collected data were described statistically, but also analysed with the use of crosstabulation and binary logistic regression. Firstly, we brought convincing evidence about strong links between mayors' attachment to the EU on the one hand, and the perception of CBC as beneficial for their municipalities. And secondly, mayors' critical (reflexive) attitudes to historical conflicts and injuries are closely linked to the perception of border as an opportunity.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Political and Economic Unrest in the Contemporary Era
ISBN
978-88-85813-41-0
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
158-173
Number of pages of the book
433
Publisher name
Filodiritto
Place of publication
Bologna
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