Partnership as an EU Policy Instrument
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Bache (0000-0002-2149-210X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-74 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402380903354080 |
| OpenAlex | W2022038912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 20 |
Partnership is an idea whose time has come. It has been a prominent instrument of EU regional policy since 1989, requiring as a condition of funding that member states establish partnerships in each assisted region to oversee spending decisions. Over time, the requirement has become more precise to ensure the participation not only of state actors from various territorial levels, but also non-state actors. Using the political sociology approach to policy instruments, this article considers the creation and development of the partnership instrument and analyses the key debates and issues that have informed its evolution. It argues that while partnership has been generally presented as a technical device aimed at improving decisional efficiency and policy effectiveness, it is a highly political instrument with very different purposes and effects in different contexts
Economic policy · Economics · European union · General partnership · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Regional Development and Policy
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Epistemic justice in urban living labs
Europeanization and multi‐level governance
Building multi‐level governance in Southeast Europe
Deliberative Wave and Neo‐Managerial Conception of Mini‐Publics
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France
La fabrique des investisseurs publics
Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance
Ce que le Fonds social européen fait à l’action publique locale
Challenges of multi-level governance and partnership
Using partnership to ameliorate regional policies? The case of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The effectiveness of European Regional Development Fund projects in Greece
Post-Brexit regional economic development policy in the UK? Some enduring lessons from European Union Cohesion Policy
Drivers behind conditionalities in EU cohesion policy governance
In pursuit of common good? Understanding contestation over the partnership principle for structural funds in the new member states
A perennial problem? On underoccupation in English council housing
Managing European Union Structural Funds
Engineering Multilevel Governance? Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (Jessica) and the Involvement of Private and Financial Actors in Urban Development Policy
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy
Why Implement without a Tangible Threat? The Effect of a Soft Instrument on National Migrant Integration Policies
Mapping the post-bureaucratic landscape
The role of social capital within policy networks
Multi-level governance of climate change adaptation through regional partnerships in Canada and England
Europeanisation of interest intermediation in the Central and Eastern European member states
Doing more with less’ or ‘doing less with less’? Assessing EU cohesion policy’s financial instruments for urban development
The Equivocality of the EU Citizen Turn
Multilevel Governance and Participation
Exploring Governance in a Multi-Level Polity
Administrative Agencies and the Collaborative Game
Central coercion or local autonomy? A comparative analysis of policy instrument choice in refugee settlement policies
How learning aggregates
The Legacy of the Northern Way
The post-2013 reform of EU cohesion policy and the place-based narrative
Innovation in climate adaptation policy
Multi-level Governance and Democracy
Cohesion Policy and European Integration
Strong Demand, Huge Supply
Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions
European Regional Development Fund Expenditure in the Uk
The EU and recent regional reform in Poland
EU Regional Policy and the Candidate States
Cohesion in the European Union
Embryonic Associationalism
The EU ‘partnership principle’
Does European Community Regional Policy Empower the Regions
Legitimacy through Partnership? EU Policy Diffusion in Britain and Sweden
Democracy paradoxes in multi-level governance
Law, Legitimacy and EC Governance
Social Capital, Learning and EU Regional Policy Networks
Democracy through Multilevel Governance? The Implementation of the Structural Funds in South Yorkshire
Intellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |