Table Of ContentHandbook 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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