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作者

Barbara Demeterova;Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins;Tatjana Fischer

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.28,Issue.12

语言

英文

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作者单位

a Department of Geography, Chair for Economic Geography and Tourism Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;b Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales;c Institute of Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement (IRUB), Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

摘要

Despite decades of spending, Cohesion Policy appears unable to fully address growing national disparities and increasing ‘roll-out’ nationalism. In the present study we discuss regional effects of ‘fuzzy’ policy concepts, such as EU’s policy for Territorial Cohesion, in Central European borderlands from a stakeholder perspective. Identifying how key policy documents have framed the discussion of Territorial Cohesion, we furthermore demonstrate the differing ways regional stakeholders have interpreted this vision. By showing how multiple translations have produced dynamics that create a circular process, we conclude that this process leads towards non-comparable outcomes, increased misunderstanding, while fuelling EU scepticism.