Towards new forms of regional governance in Greece: the Southern Aegean Islands
| Autor: | Leeda Demetropoulou, Panayiotis Getimis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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| Zdroj: | Regional & Federal Studies. 14:355-378 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9434 1359-7566 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1359756042000261351 |
| Popis: | This article studies the impact of Europeanization on the Greek regional administrative structures, policy-making processes and institutions, using as a case study the Region of Southern Aegean Islands. While acknowledging the significance of the adaptational pressure exerted by the EU, the authors argue for the significance of certain pre-existing facilitating conditions for the adaptational outcome. Elaborating on the results of a recent Social Network Analysis conducted in the region and a series of semi-structured interviews with key national and sub-national actors, the article analyses the impact of the pre-existing national structures and sub-national institutions and their interaction on the capacity of local systems of governance to learn and to adapt to the changing conditions brought about by the Europeanization of regional policy-making in Greece. The article studies the conditions that facilitate and promote regional institutional changes, as well as those that limit the regional institutiona... |
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