Multiple Rationalities in Regional Development

Scherer, Roland; Zumbusch, Kristina

doi:10.1057/9781137444424.0012

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“…In cross border regions, these challenges to governance systems are further aggravated by differing cultural, institutional, and legal systems, varying backgrounds, different languages as well as by a lacking knowledge about the different systems involved, which render the conditions for co-operation even more complex [10]. In addition, different policy cultures and contested relational policy spaces have been analyzed as significant barriers for successful co-operation processes in cross-border regions [5], partly comparable to the multiple rationalities in regional governance in general [24]. Different systems and perceptions have to be bridged; a common base for working and communicating has to be found.…”

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Cross-Border Governance: Balancing Formalized and Less Formalized Co-Operations

Zumbusch

Scherer

2015

Social Sciences

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The paper analyses cross-border co-operation with regard to its degree of formalization. Herewith, the focus is not on single cross-border organizations, but on the encompassing governance systems in the respective regions. That means that the specific combination of differently organized cross-border arrangements is analyzed. Cross-border governance systems are facing multiple governance challenges which ask either for a certain degree of institutionalization or for more informal solutions. Based on an empirical comparison of the two experienced, but differently organized, cross-border regions in Europe the Lake Constance Region and the Upper-Rhine Region, the paper illustrates that the organizational variation of cross-border governance systems show specific patterns. From these findings, first arguments are deduced for balancing formalized and more informal co-operations in cross-border governance systems.

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Section: Success Factors For Cross-border Governance Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%