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Institutionalizing (cross-border) citizenship on subnational level - the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) as new administrative space for participatory and functional governance in Europe

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Ulrich, Peter

Abstract

"Cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of subnational entities within the European Union have been strengthened politically, legally and financially by the EU and the Council of Europe. Nearly every border region in the EU participates in some form of cooperation structure across... view more

"Cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of subnational entities within the European Union have been strengthened politically, legally and financially by the EU and the Council of Europe. Nearly every border region in the EU participates in some form of cooperation structure across borders - mainly due to financial support by the EU joint initiative INTERREG. In general, these Europeanization effects of regional administrative integration have been described by scholars using neofunctionalist (multilevel governance) and intergovernmentalist approaches highlighting the cooperation rationale of cross-border actors. The aim of the research project is to go a step ahead following a conceptual shift towards a normative - participatory approach of (cross-border) regional integration. On the basis of the EU legal instrument European Grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC), processes of re-scaling, re-territorialization and paradiplomacy in a 'Europe of the territories' will be analyzed with regard to inclusiveness and modes of subnational participatory governance. In general, policy-making and strategic development of the EU regional policy, particularly the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) are products of a successive bargaining and functional technocratic regulation between the administrative elites within the EU multilevel (supranational, national, subnational) polity excluding the local community. The aim of the research project is thus to elaborate forms and channels of transborder participatory governance in EU transnational spaces and to examine pre-conditions for the establishment of an increased inclusion of a cross-border citizenship. Moreover, it focuses on the problems and obstacles of the institutionalization of deliberative and participatory mechanisms of a subnational citizenship in a postnational multilevel arena. Finally, the research - that is based on a case study of the EGTC Galicia-Norte de Portugal - analyzes to what extent the EGTC foster both the consolidation of cross-border cooperation and institutionalization of transnational participation on a subnational level." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
EU; cross-border cooperation; multi-level-governance; transnationalization; regional integration; Euroregion; Portugal; Europeanization; citizenship; Spain; European integration

Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
European Politics

Free Keywords
participatory governance; participatory democracy; territorial cooperation; European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC)

Document language
English

Publication Year
2016

Page/Pages
p. 11-39

Journal
Federal Governance, 13 (2016) 1

ISSN
1923-6158

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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