Cohesion Policy and European Integration - Building Multi-Level Governance

Zusatztext This is a significant contribution to a contentious issue in British and European politics. Klappentext How can one convince potent nation-states to put their sovereignty at risk in common European policies? EU cohesion policy, now one-third of the EU budget, provides such a puzzle. Until 1988 the European Commission shared out money to national governments with few strings attached. Since the reform of 1988, national governments are required to negotiate with the Commission and regional authorities on how to use the money. Has this European-wide policy eroded national sovereignty in favour of a stronger role for the Commission and more power for Europe's regions? The first part of the book probes into the policy dynamics at the European level. In the second part, eight country studies evaluate the impact of uniform EU policy on territorial relations by comparing policy making before and after the reform. The concluding section explains persistent variation in EU cohesion decision making and implementation. Zusammenfassung This book is a sustained study of cohesion policy in the European Union, which now absorbs one-third of the EU budget. The central question is how policy makers can develop a common European policy, and yet give attention to the variation in practice, institutions, and players in the member states.

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• Authors: Liesbet Hooghe, Liesbet (Assistant Professor Hooghe
• Assisted by: Liesbet Hooghe (Editor), Hooghe Liesbet (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1996
• EAN: 9780198280644
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828064-4
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: Nuffield European Studies; Nuffield European Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions