Pratiques De La Gouvernance Locale En Allemagne Orientale

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ID11978422
AuthorsGuillaume Lacquement (0000-0002-2564-1782, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume43
Issue03
Pages57-89
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0338-0599 • E-ISSN: 2259-6100
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4074/s0338059912003038
OpenAlexW2049971757
LanguageFR
Citations received1
References cited6

This study of the practices of local governance in eastern German rural areas focuses on the application of the 2007-2013 LEADER Program. The latter, now a part of European Union agricultural and rural policies, is intended to develop local initiatives in territorial development. Its application supposes that local stakeholders will enter into networks of cooperation for designing and implementing development projects. In the countryside of former East Germany, this process involves a mechanism of institutional transfers that require a genuine learning effort on the part of local populations. This case study borrows methods from the structuralist sociology to analyze how these networks of cooperation operate under the Leader Program. It is hypothesized that these systems of local action are part of a game involving “logics” of both institutional transfers and the geographical context, which post-Communism has marked

Geography · Political science · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Social Sciences and Governance

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