Sustainability of cross-border cooperation: PHARE CBC partnership development paths

Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna

doi:10.1177/0969776414526734

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“…The context thus created mirrors the assumption of path dependence; whereby in the course of institutional development, self-triggering and self-reinforcing processes beyond the control of individuals or individual organizations, irrespective of their level of influence, are set in motion. This mirrors a fairly recent observation in which the sustainability of trans-border partnerships was found to be dependent on major rules governing the system of cooperation (Szmigiel-Rawska, 2016).…”

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Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective

Onyoin

Bovis

2020

IJPSM

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PurposeThis paper explains the evident disproportionality in the levels of adoption of the modality of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in Uganda by tracing the peculiar preconditions and enablers of the model's relative high adoption in the electricity sector.Design/methodology/approachKey conceptual suggestions from historical institutionalism (HI), critical juncture and path dependence are used to orient the data collection and analysis. The direct experiences and perceptions of key informants involved in policy, regulation and operations in the electricity sector are thematically analyzed.FindingsThe primacy of specific policy, institutional decisions and actions sequentially undertaken at the international, national and sectorial levels in shaping the conceivability and possibility of PPP modality is foregrounded. In particular, international advisory for the changed role of the state and the government's subsequent decision to enact and reenact specific institutional frameworks at the national and sectorial levels created important disruptions to the status quo and paved a new and relatively stable institutional path conducive for private sector participation.Research limitations/implicationsTheoretically, the paper demonstrates the ability and power of HI to support the exploration and framing of multilevel and path-dependent explanations of institutional development and policy adoption. Practically, suggestions in terms of policy, legal and regulatory enablers for the adoption of PPP are made to shape practitioners' decision-makingPractical implicationsPractically, suggestions in terms of policy, legal and regulatory enablers for the adoption of PPP are made to shape practitioners' decision-making.Originality/valueThe importance of considering factor combinations and sequences in explaining the emergence, adoption and proliferation of public policy instruments and phenomena is underscored. In addition, the discourse on PPPs is moved beyond rationalization on how to even out their adoption (and subsequently the associated benefits) across sectors.

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Section: Discussion Of the Findings Of The Policy And Institutional Enablers Of Pppssupporting

confidence: 85%

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective

Onyoin

Bovis

2020

IJPSM

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“…In contrast, in Central and Eastern Europe, the large majority of the so-called transitional countries fragmented their local government structures during the 1990s to promote local democracy as a reaction to territorial consolidations imposed under former communist regimes (Swianiewicz 2010). Another trend resulted from the European integration efforts of the past three decades with crossborder cooperation becoming a major issue of interest, both for researchers and practitioners ( de Sousa 2013;Szmigiel-Rawska 2016). Elsewhere, many of Latin America's largest metropolises face significant governance challenges due to excessive fragmentation (e.g., Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Santiago), with monocentric metropolitan regions constituting the exception, either by intentional design (Lima's metropolitan government) or by historical dominance of the central city (Bogotá) (Nickson 2011;Frey 2014).…”

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Applying an Institutional Collective Action Framework to Investigate Intermunicipal Cooperation in Europe

Tavares

Feiock

2017

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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Over the last few decades, European countries have dealt with problems of regional governance in very different ways. A common theme is the debate between supporters of local government mergers to expand the capacity and efficiency in service provision and those favoring local government autonomy and self-determination to protect democracy and government responsiveness. The significant number of scholarly contributions to this debate between mergers and fragmentation contrasts with the scarcity of theoretical attention to decentralized self-organizing mechanisms. This article fills this lacuna by developing an extension of the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework for the European context. The framework defines two dimensions to understand intermunicipal cooperation: the type of urban integration mechanism (imposed authority, delegated authority, contracts, or social embeddedness) and the degree of institutional scope (narrow, intermediate or complex). The resulting typology composed by 12 cells is illustrated with examples of intermunicipal cooperation for solving governance dilemmas in the European setting. We advance theoretical propositions rooted in historical, cultural, and institutional differences to explain the variation in the adoption of intermunicipal cooperation by Northern versus Southern as well as Eastern versus Western European countries. A research agenda using the ICA framework is advanced for framing the studies of regional governance in Europe.

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“…The 1990s have seen a strong surge in the number of cross-border regions all over Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Many of these regions exhibit positive trends in the coordination of joint development (Perkmann, 2003;Johnson, 2009;Kuus, 2011;Bański, 2013;Szmigiel-Rawska, 2014). This experience can be an inspiration for all the countries of the Danube Region, so we highly appreciate the initiative and effort of the EUSDR to coordinate these activities.…”

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Integrated Approach to the Management of the Landscape for the Implementation of the Danube Strategy

Izakovičová

Miklós

Miklósová

et al. 2020

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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The EU Strategy for the Danube Region represents a new form of territorial cooperation. Its ambition is to establish a mechanism of joint responsibility of the countries in the Danube Region for the economic and social development respecting the preservation of natural and cultural heritage. The Strategy is built on four basic pillars: connectivity, building of prosperity, strengthening of the Danube Region and protection of the environment. The Strategy declares the necessity of interdisciplinarity and integrated approach to building a sustainable development of the Region. The scientific base of such an integrated management concerning the landscape and environment is in general the geosystem approach to the landscape, the managerial basement is the harmonisation of the development of the society with the natural, socio-economic and cultural-historical potential of landscape. The integration of both these bases needs a proper system of mutually complementary scientific methods and their implementation to the institutional tools convenient for the Danube Region. The goal of the article is to outline the possibilities for joining/implementation of scientific methods through legally supported tools to integrated landscape management and regional development.

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Sustainability of cross-border cooperation: PHARE CBC partnership development paths

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective

Applying an Institutional Collective Action Framework to Investigate Intermunicipal Cooperation in Europe

Integrated Approach to the Management of the Landscape for the Implementation of the Danube Strategy

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