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作者

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.27,Issue4,P.678-698

语言

英文

关键字

CLLD; meta-governance; local development; institutional technology; spatial imaginary; spatial-temporal fix; EUROPEAN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT; EU COHESION POLICY; TERRITORIAL COHESION; SOFT SPACES; GOVERNANCE; STRATEGY; REFORM; FACE

作者单位

[Servillo, Loris] UCL, Bartlett Sch Planning, London, England. Servillo, L (reprint author), UCL, Bartlett Sch Planning, London, England. E-Mail: loris.servillo@gmail.com

摘要

The paper provides a theoretical contribution to the multi-level governance debate, discussing the role of the policy instruments in tailoring polities for local development strategies. To this purpose, it examines the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), a policy tool of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020, which has generated more than 3000 local initiatives across the EU. An institutionalist perspective enables a reflection on the multi-level normative dimensions of these local initiatives. A combination of the post-functionalist governance theory, the soft space debate, state-theory and strategic-relational approach provides an interpretative framework to be deployed for a dedicated research agenda. The interpretative challenge is about whether the CLLD enables spatial-temporal fixes in which a deliberative polity pursues a spatial imaginary for an ad-hoc territory. The consequent analytical dimensions can be found in (a) the relationship between attendant ad-hoc polity, policy agenda, territorial design and societal processes; and (b) the meta-governance dimensions that locate the bottom-up constituency of this institutional technology in the shadow of state's hierarchy. An overview of the CLLD implementation across the EU provides evidence on the latter.