04699nam 22007335 450 991040415780332120230717200020.03-030-36998-610.1007/978-3-030-36998-9(CKB)4100000011263616(MiAaPQ)EBC6207041(DE-He213)978-3-030-36998-9(PPN)259464287(EXLCZ)99410000001126361620200520d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEconomic Growth and Cohesion Policy Implementation in Italy and Spain Institutions, Strategic Choices, Administrative Change /by Mattia Casula1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (297 pages) illustrationsInternational Series on Public Policy,2524-731X3-030-36997-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Conceptualising Cohesion Policy as a Case of Development Policy: A Framework for Empirical Analysis -- 2 Understanding the Rules of the Game: How Cohesion Policy Works -- 3 The Italian Case: Between Decentralisation and the Legacies of the Past -- 4. The Spanish Case: The Benefits of a National Coordination -- 5. Conclusions: Two Cases in a Comparative Perspective.This book concerns EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of underdeveloped regions in Italy and Spain from the first programming period to the present: it investigates the political and institutional factors that determine the success or failure of implementing EU Cohesion Policy at national and sub-national level, as well as their impact on economic growth. On the wave of the American tradition of development studies, this book suggests that public policy analysis can be fruitful for understanding economic growth and cohesion, if it were to reconstruct domestic public interventions for development and the institutional characteristics of the subjects responsible for pursuing development goals. To do so, this book derives its theoretical foundations from the traditional debate on the role of state actors in promoting economic development and on the institutional characteristics that the public authorities involved in the process of economic development should display. More precisely, by adopting an Hirschmanian approach to development, it elaborates an original framework to compare different Cohesion Policy implementations and to understand its economic results in different countries, using Italy and Spain as pilot studies. Mattia Casula is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He has held visiting positions at the European University Institute in Florence, at the University of Strathclyde and at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests and publications are in the field of public policy and administration, with a focus on subnational and local levels. A former member of the Board of the Regional Studies Association, he is currently cocoordinator of the Standing Group “Regional Studies and Local Policies” of the Italian Political Science Association.International Series on Public Policy,2524-731XPolitical planningEurope—Politics and governmentExecutive powerInternational economic relationsEurope—Economic integrationEconomic policyPublic PolicyEuropean PoliticsExecutive PoliticsInternational Political Economy’European Economic IntegrationEconomic PolicyPolitical planning.Europe—Politics and government.Executive power.International economic relations.Europe—Economic integration.Economic policy.Public Policy.European Politics.Executive Politics.International Political Economy’.European Economic Integration.Economic Policy.338.945338.9Casula Mattiaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut750198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910404157803321Economic Growth and Cohesion Policy Implementation in Italy and Spain2135499UNINA