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Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU Edited by Simona Piattoni Professor of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy Laura Polverari Senior Research Fellow, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Simona Piattoni and Laura Polverari 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2016938581 This book is available electronically in the Social and Political Science subject collection DOI 10.4337/ 9781784715670 ISBN 978 1 78471 566 3 (cased) ISBN 978 1 78471 567 0 (eBook) Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Contents List of figures viii List of tables ix List of boxes xi List of contributors xii Preface xvi List of abbreviations xix Maps xxv ESI Funds 2014–2020 allocations xxx Introduction 1 Simona Piattoni and Laura Polverari PART I H ISTORY, PRINCIPLES AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF COHESION POLICY 1 The history and evolution of Cohesion policy 17 Marco Brunazzo 2 The institutions and procedures of Cohesion policy 36 Paul Stephenson 3 The economic theory of Cohesion policy 50 Iain Begg 4 Cohesion policy, multilevel governance and democracy 65 Simona Piattoni 5 Cohesion policy and Europeanisation 79 Marcin Dąbrowski and Paolo R. Graziano 6 Quality of government, regional autonomy and Cohesion policy allocations to EU regions 92 Nicholas Charron PART II THE POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS OF COHESION POLICY 7 The Commission and Cohesion policy 107 Ingeborg Tömmel 8 Cohesion policy reform and the evolving role of the Council 121 John Bachtler and Carlos Mendez v vi Handbook on Cohesion policy in the EU 9 The European Parliament and Cohesion policy 140 Danuta Hübner 10 The European Committee of the Regions and EU Cohesion policy 156 Justus Schönlau 11 The European Court of Auditors and Cohesion policy 170 George Karakatsanis and Martin Weber 12 Cohesion policy, EU economic governance and the role of the European Investment Bank 186 Rocco L. Bubbico, Angel Catalina Rubianes, Eugenia Kazamaki Ottersten and Maria K. Sioliou 13 Cohesion policy and regional mobilisation 203 Eve Hepburn 14 The impact of Cohesion policy on regionalist parties’ positions on European integration 217 Emanuele Massetti and Arjan H. Schakel PART III COHESION POLICY AND THE MEMBER STATES 15 Cohesion policy in the southern periphery 231 Laura Polverari 16 Cohesion policy in the service economies of the north 250 David Charles 17 Cohesion policy in the rich central regions 268 Jörg Balsiger 18 Cohesion policy in the sparsely populated countries 285 Tatjana Muravska, Jānis Aprāns and Aleksandrs Dahs 19 Cohesion policy in Central and Eastern Europe: the challenge of learning 302 Ilona Pálné Kovács PART IV COHESION POLICY AND BROADER EUROPEAN STRATEGIES 20 Cohesion policy and rural development 325 Riccardo Crescenzi and Fabrizio De Filippis 21 Cohesion policy and transportation 339 J. Andres Faiña, Jesús López- Rodríguez and Paulino Montes-S olla 22 Smart specialisation in the reformed EU Cohesion policy 359 Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega- Argilés 23 Cohesion policy and the green economy 369 Andrea Lenschow and Jörg Baudner Contents vii 24 New strategic approaches to territorial cooperation in Europe: from Euro-r egions to European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs) and macro-r egional strategies 384 Stefan Gänzle 25 EU Cohesion policy in the Eastern Partnership region: a case of external Europeanisation 399 Attila Ágh and Attila Kovács 26 Cohesion policy and cities: an ambivalent relationship 413 Rob Atkinson and Karsten Zimmermann PART V CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DEBATES 27 The ‘real’ principles of Cohesion policy 429 Robert Leonardi and Catalina Holguin 28 Impact assessment of EU Cohesion policy: theoretical and empirical issues 443 Ugo Fratesi 29 Does Cohesion policy lead to economic convergence? 461 Ton Notermans 30 The social dimension of Cohesion policy 475 Valeria Fargion and Stefania Profeti 31 The territoriality of Cohesion policy 491 Andreas Faludi 32 Multilevel governance and multiscalar forms of territorialisation 506 Enrico Gualini Index 525 Figures 6.1 The effect of QoG on Structural Funds at various levels of self- rule 101 11.1 2007–2013 programming period: reporting and control obligations 174 11.2 The ‘single audit’ pyramid for Cohesion policy 176 12.1 Ex ante additionality targets (2014–2020) 193 19.1 A bsorption of funding and project selection for the 2007–2013 programming period 315 21.1 Central regions at EU NUTS 2 level 347 21.2 Demand cones and market areas: the decline of demand with distance 348 21.3 Core and periphery areas 350 21.4 TEN- T corridors 352 21.5 D istribution of papers and patents in the semiconductor sector, 1988–2004 356 24.1 Types of territorial cooperation 386 24.2 M embership of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region 391 30.1 P ercentage of Structural Funds (ESF 1 ERDF) and Cohesion Fund 2007–2013 devoted to social cohesion priorities 480 30.2 A llocation of funding to social priorities in EU member states (% of total Structural and Cohesion Funds) 481 30.3 F unds allocation to social cohesion priorities, TOs 8, 9 and 10, in the Partnership Agreements (% of total funds) 485 30.4 P ercentage of ESF allocated to social inclusion, TO9, in the Partnership Agreements 486 32.1 Multilevel and multiscalar territorial systems: scheme of analysis 519 viii Tables 0.1 E uropean Structural and Investment Funds allocations 2014–2020 in the EU28 member states (€) xxx 6.1 Summary statistics of variables 98 6.2 Test of H1 and H2: OLS estimates 100 14.1 R egionalist party positions on European integration according to funding period 221 14.2 R egionalist party positions on European integration according to Left–Right position 222 14.3 S tructural funding and regionalist party positions on European integration 223 14.4 S tructural funding and regionalist party positions on European integration for three funding periods 224 14A.1 Regionalist parties 228 15.1 N umber of Cohesion policy programmes, eligibility and implementation approaches across programming periods 233 15.2 C ommitment appropriations for Cohesion policy 1989–2020 (€ million, constant 2010 prices) 236 15.3 R elative distribution of resources to Thematic Objectives in the national Partnership Agreements (% values of TO allocations over total PA value) 238 16.1 N umber of Cohesion policy programmes, eligibility and implementation approaches across programming periods 251 16.2 C ommitment appropriations for Cohesion policy 1989–2020 (€ million, constant 2010 prices) 256 17.1 N umber of Cohesion policy programmes, eligibility and implementation approaches across programming periods 269 17.2 Cohesion policy funding, 1989–2020 (€ million, constant 2010 prices) 274 17.3 S hare of national Cohesion policy funding allocated to the poorest regions, 1989–2020 (% of total funding) 275 17.4 E RDF and ESF contributions, 2000–2020 (% of total Cohesion policy funding) 276 17.5 Thematic Objectives, 2014–2020 (% of national allocation) 277 18.1 Main data of NUTS regions in sparsely populated countries 286 18.2 C ohesion policy programmes, eligibility and implementation approaches across programming periods 288 18.3 C ommitment appropriations for Cohesion policy 1995–2020 (€, constant 2010 prices) 290 18.4 P riorities and Operational Programmes in sparsely populated countries in 2014–2020 according to Partnership Agreements 292 18.5 R elative distribution of resources to Thematic Objectives in the national Partnership Agreements (% values of TO allocations over total PA value) 294 ix
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