Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States

Author: Bruszt Laszlo  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1359-7566

Source: Regional and Federal Studies, Vol.18, Iss.5, 2008-10, pp. : 607-627

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Abstract

This article deals with emerging configurations of developmental regionalism and different patterns of multi-level governance in the Central and East European countries, using examples from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. EU conditionality and pre-accession programmes linked to the idea of a Europe of the Regions played a considerable role in the changing—and in the case of some of the aspiring member countries, in the creation—of regional institutional landscapes. While later the same programmes became instigators of (re-)centralization and re-nationalization, the interaction between uniform EU conditionality and diverse domestic conditions resulted in various emerging versions of multi-level governance and different configurations of regionalism.