| Autor: |
Sootla, Georg, Kattai, Kersten |
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Regional & Federal Studies; Apr2020, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p283-301, 19p |
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The article analyses European impacts on the formation of subnational governance in Estonia and the role of domestic mediating variables in institutionalizing those impacts. We analyse different types of Europeanization at different periods: during post-communist transition, EU accession, and after EU accession, focusing in that period on the implementation of European Union Structural Fund (SF) programmes. Because of the short historical experience of democratic governance in Estonia, horizontal fragmentation of local authorities and weak policy input channels of local interests to central institutions, the pillarized administrative hierarchy and deconcentrated agencies started to prevail over subnational governance. This structural pattern ensured a perfect top-down implementation of EU policies by central government agencies and achievement of EU SF programme's operational outputs. But it constrained the mobilization of subnational elites, their active involvement in multilevel governance arrangements and development of policy ownership of EU policy implementation at the local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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