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Conceptualizing Cohesion Policy as a Case of Development Policy: A Framework for the Empirical Analysis

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Chapter 1 “Conceptualizing Cohesion Policy as a Case of Development Policy: A Framework for the Empirical Analysis” introduces the limits and potentialities of the use of policy analysis in the study of regional economic development, and it suggests the use of an abductive approach and the adoption of a working hypothesis methodology in designing a similar qualitative research. This chapter also introduces the theoretical framework used during the empirical analysis on the basis of the triple challenge that the new regulations introduced (institutional, strategic, and administrative), and the Hirschmanian approach adopted in this book. In general terms, it makes simultaneous use of the literature on Europeanization and historical institutionalism in explaining the way in which change occurred in the three dimensions under investigation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See in Century Dictionary Supplement (1909 ed. by Benjamin E. Smith), New York, The Century Company.

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    Cfr. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/newsroom/news/2016/04/04-04-2016-european-cohesion-policy-a-key-factor-for-spain-s-development-and-integration-in-europe; accessed 06 July 2016.

  3. 3.

    According to the pioneering article of Woll and Jacquot (2003), the term usage covers “practices and political interactions which adjust and redefine themselves by seizing the European Union as a set of opportunities, be they institutional, ideological, political or organizational” (2003, p. 4).

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Casula, M. (2020). Conceptualizing Cohesion Policy as a Case of Development Policy: A Framework for the Empirical Analysis. In: Economic Growth and Cohesion Policy Implementation in Italy and Spain. International Series on Public Policy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36998-9_1

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