The Limits of Regionalization: The Intergovernmental Struggle over EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325417720717" target="_blank" >10.1177/0888325417720717</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Limits of Regionalization: The Intergovernmental Struggle over EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic

Original language description

What explains national variation in the implementation of EU Cohesion policy, in particular when it comes to the role of regions in Structural Funds management? This is an important question because, as some scholars have claimed, Cohesion policy has the potential to empower regions and promote regionalization in Europe. Particularly in the new CEE member states, where relations between central and subnational authorities often remain unsettled or in a state of flux, the ability of regional authorities to exercise a substantial role in Cohesion policy implementation could significantly impact intergovernmental relations and the balance of power between the central state and regions. This article examines this question in the case of one CEE member state, the Czech Republic, where the role of regions in Structural Funds management has been a particularly contentious issue over the course of three programming periods beginning in 2004. The article argues that the standard explanation in the literature for variation in Cohesion policy implementation—national constitutional arrangements and governmental traditions—cannot explain the change of implementation systems in the Czech Republic because these remained constant over the three programming periods under investigation. Instead, the Czech case suggests the primary importance of regional administrative capacity and performance as a factor affecting Cohesion policy implementation, while domestic politics and EU-level influences play important though secondary roles.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

East European Politics and Societies

ISSN

0888-3254

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

"863–884"

UT code for WoS article

000413663000008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85032456410