| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Constructing Spanish success and Slovak failure; Measuring success and failure; Methodology and data collection; The outline of Financing Roma Inclusion with European Structural Funds; Notes; Chapter 2 Theorizing cohesion policy; Europeanization lens; International pressure; Compliance with EU recommendations; Administrative capacity; Agency and decision-making; The gravity of the problem; What is proposed?; Notes; Chapter 3 Theorizing implementation; Revitalizing implementation theory |
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Official templates for action: top-down approachesContesting formal decisions: a bottom-up approach; Synthesizing implementation models; A constructionist approach to implementation; Agency within a decentralized system of governance; Breaking down the hierarchy; New public governance: implementation within a pluralist framework; Critiquing the ideals of participatory governance; Governing implementation; Coordinating complexity; Metagovernance: the need for oversight; Examining a coordinative toolkit; Concerted effort; Applying the framework; Notes |
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Chapter 4 Policy design: constructing problems and solutionsSocial exclusion: an elusive concept; Framing social exclusion inside cohesion policy; Framing Roma exclusion; Targeting or mainstreaming?; Mobilizing social exclusion in Spanish and Slovak SF programming; Conceptualizing strategic targets; Recognizing structural discrimination; Adopting strategic action plans; Structuring effect of policy design on SF outputs in Spain; Structuring effect of policy design on SF outputs in Slovakia; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 5 Working through partnership: who, how, to what effect? |
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Representation at crossroads: expertise versus political voiceArchitecting representation in cohesion policy; Shaping partnership in Spain and Slovakia; Institutionalization of partnership; Partnership and SF outputs; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 6 Safeguarding programmatic synergies; Cohesion policy: complimentary and 'added value'; Synergies and joined-up efforts; Simplifying service delivery; Managerial efficiency and accountability; Striving for innovation; Spain political consensus on complementarities; Slovakia: an ambiguous commitment |
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Spain: decentralization, consensus, and soft approachesSlovakia: centralization, top-down command, and fragmentation; Programmatic synergy and SF outputs in Spain; Synergies in Slovakia and SF outputs; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 7 A successful project has many parents but a failure is always an orphan: Structural Funds at a micro-level; Spain: deviating from the success; PROMOCIONA: targeted education; Failing to challenge the status quo; The Granada Employment Programme; Strengths and challenges; Transition to Employment in the South Industrial Park, Seville |
| Notes |
Who should promote systemic changes? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351728768 |
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1351728768 |
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9781351728751 |
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135172875X |
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9781351728744 |
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1351728741 |
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9781315183640 |
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1315183641 |
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