New approaches in European governance? Perspectives of stakeholders in the Danube macro-region

Sielker, Franziska

doi:10.1080/21681376.2015.1116957

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Likewise, the collaboration between the Spanish government and the regional authorities was "interrupted after the change in the government" (Interview ES8) following the victory of the Popular Party at the 2011 elections. This confirms that the effectiveness of MLG is significantly influenced by the support of political groups (Sielker, 2016), reflecting their views on local autonomy and the devolution of administration powers (Karlsson, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Does the Multilevel Governance of State Aid Encourage Broadband Diffusion? Evidence from Three European Countries

2019

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EU broadband policy has been described as an example of multi-level governance (MLG) involving manifold actors across different sectors and levels of government. Whereas the extant literature has largely explored the interaction among public and private players and between national and supranational regulators in the context of the EU broadband markets, little attention has been paid to the MLG of state aid for broadband diffusion. This paper aims to fill such a research gap by employing multiple qualitative methods to explore how MLG has affected the implementation of public initiatives in support of broadband diffusion across Spain, Italy and the UK. The crosscountry comparison reveals a trend towards the centralisation of public interventions, which created efficiencies in the management of state aid but raised tensions with local authorities. Therefore, the current MLG of state aid needs to be adjusted to balance the benefits of a greater coordination with the need urgency to ensure the effective and active participation of local stakeholders to the implementation of broadband projects.

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confidence: 71%

Does the Multilevel Governance of State Aid Encourage Broadband Diffusion? Evidence from Three European Countries

2019

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“…Consequently, the outcome is that the use of fuzzy boundaries and soft spaces play an important role in the actual flood-risk management discussion. Management plans also included concrete top-down management to provide discursive closure avoid endless discussion (Sielker, 2016), representing a process of 'hardening' of the catchment-wide boundaries (Haughton et al, 2013;Metzger & Schmitt, 2012), where different collaborations show a high degree of formalization between the different actors.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A proliferation of new concepts and approaches have emerged concerning these emerging catchment-wide managements, here highlighting two that allow a rethinking of time, stakeholders or policy fields in the planning processes (Sielker, 2016). Firstly, the emergence of new kinds of interaction boundaries (fuzzy boundaries) faced by those planning and managing integrated catchment planning (Allmendinger & Haughton, 2009;Heley, 2013;Metzger & Schmitt, 2012).…”

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Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria

Thaler

2016

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Floodplain areas across the world have always been attractive for residential and non-residential developments. Regions (such as Alpine floodplains) lacking other suitable development areas face strong pressure to develop buildings in hazard areas. Both policy-makers and researchers focused upon questions of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards against a current transformation in the state's role in terms of responsibility sharing and individual responsibilities for risk management and precaution. Traditional flood-risk management approaches envisage ABSTRACT Floodplain areas across the world have always played an attractive role for residential and non-residential developments. the alpine regions have a strong pressure to develop new residential and non-residential buildings in hazard areas due to lack of other areas suitable for development. consequently, the number of elements at risk and vulnerability to flood hazards increased. in order to reduce the vulnerability, the focus of mitigation flood hazards was for decades on structural engineering measures with the problem of spatial misfits between the threat and management strategy. Since the late 1990s/early 2000s, austrian policy makers have been trying to overcome this spatial misfit with the implementation of an inter-local cooperation approach with the use of so-called 'new spatial planning' (Heley, 2013) in the planning process. therefore, the paper examines what the actors and stakeholders are doing in practice and how the concept of fuzziness helps. although a partnership approach may be seen as a promising solution, in practice there are many limitations and barriers in establishing these collaborations and making them effective (especially in the long term). Rhetoric may not be matched by reality and a 'partnership' agenda may bring more problems (i.e. high transactions costs, high risk of failure, uncertainty in the long term) than it solves.

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“…Scholars from the fields of geography, regional and spatial planning have interpreted macroregional strategies as an innovative approach to European policy-making (e.g., Dühr, 2018;Faludi, 2012;Sielker, 2016) leading to different forms of cooperation with involvement of a wide range of stakeholders from different sectors and levels of governance. More specifically, the notion of macro-regional strategies as 'soft spaces' of governance has gained currency among scholars.…”

Section: Soft Spaces Reterritorialization and Experimentalist Governmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is today widely accepted that European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) constitutes one of the cornerstones of European integration (Knippenberg, 2004;Perkmann, 2003). EU macro-regional strategies are the most recent addition to this toolbox of functional cooperation in a territorial context (Dühr, 2011(Dühr, , 2018Gänzle & Kern, 2016a, 2016bMetzger & Schmitt, 2012;Schuh et al, 2015;Sielker, 2016;Stead, 2011Stead, , 2014aStead, , 2014b. Although geographically focused on a 'macro-region', such as the Baltic Sea, these strategies have been devised to address specific challenges and opportunities, and to promote mutual learning processes through 'experimenting' (Gänzle, 2017b;Gänzle & Mirtl, 2017a, 2017b with new governance architectures.…”

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‘Experimental Union’ and Baltic Sea cooperation: the case of the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)

Gänzle

2018

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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In the past, Baltic Sea cooperation has been characterized by a plethora of actors, embracing a wide range of policy objectives, such as the establishment of a good environmental status for the regional sea. In 2009, the European Council endorsed the European Union's (EU) Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) as a new tool in the repertoire of Cohesion Policy and European Territorial Cooperation (ETC). The EUSBSR seeks to foster cross-sectoral coordination and functional cooperation in policy areas of 'macro-region-level' relevance, such as transport infrastructure, economic development and environmental protectionthus projecting a 'soft space' of transnational Baltic Sea cooperation. Although firmly placed under the socalled 'Three No's', that is, the requirement of no additional EU funding, institutions and legislation, a lean governance architecture at the macro-regional level has emerged over time and the strategy mobilizes actors from all tenets of the EU's multilevel governance system, including the EU itself, its member and adjacent partner states, as well as subnational authorities and civil society. Drawing on the lens of experimentalist governance, this paper analyzes the underlying mechanisms that allow it to be gauged to what extent the Baltic Sea 'soft space' has solidified over the past decade. It also shows that the EUSBSR effectively rebalances EU transnational and intergovernmental regional cooperation in the Baltic macro-region.

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New approaches in European governance? Perspectives of stakeholders in the Danube macro-region

Cited by 26 publications

References 7 publications

Does the Multilevel Governance of State Aid Encourage Broadband Diffusion? Evidence from Three European Countries

Does the Multilevel Governance of State Aid Encourage Broadband Diffusion? Evidence from Three European Countries

Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria

‘Experimental Union’ and Baltic Sea cooperation: the case of the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)

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