Cities and Regions in Competition? Negotiations for the
2014-2020 Programming Period in the Czech Republic

J 2017

Cities and Regions in Competition? Negotiations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period in the Czech Republic

HAVLÍK, Vratislav and Petra KUCHYŇKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Cities and Regions in Competition? Negotiations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period in the Czech Republic

Authors

HAVLÍK, Vratislav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Petra KUCHYŇKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, 2017, 1842-2845

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

Romania

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.617

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00094645

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.2017.0006

UT WoS

000397181700006

Keywords in English

new regionalism; multi-level governance; governance; substate actors

Abstract

V originále

Over the past two decades, the concept ofmulti-level governance (MLG) has been increasinglydiscussed by scholars in the fi eld of Europeanintegration. While Gary Marks wrote abouta four-level arrangement (supranational, national,regional, and local), over time the regionaland local levels often became lumped togetheras ‘substate actors’ and so easily conceptuallyinterchangeable. This text, however, showsthe fallaciousness of this reasoning. In certaincircumstances we can fi nd a competitive relationshipbetween cities and regions, positioningthemselves against each other for resources andaccess to national and supranational fora, especiallyin the context of the new regionalism. Thecities have been given substantial support fromthe European Commission in recent years andwe argue that this new constellation may havea remarkable infl uence on relations and possiblyalso lead to confl icts among local and regionalactors in EU multi-level governance. This waspossible to be clearly seen in the Czech Republic(CR) between 2012 and 2014, when heatednegotiations took place regarding the implementationof the Integrated Territorial Investment(ITI), a fi nancial instrument of EU Cohesion Policywhich was implemented on the substate level– i.e., in cities and regions. In the CR this competitiontook place in a specifi c context, which alsoinfl uenced its outcome.

Links

GA13-24657S, research and development project

Name: Evropa 2020: Horizont proměny relevantních aktérů politického systému České republiky

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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HAVLÍK, Vratislav and Petra KUCHYŇKOVÁ. Cities and Regions in Competition? Negotiations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period in the Czech Republic. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences. Cluj-Napoca: Babes-Bolyai University, 2017, vol. 2017, 50E, p. 90-109. ISSN 1842-2845. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.2017.0006.

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HAVLÍK, Vratislav and Petra KUCHYŇKOVÁ. Cities and Regions in Competition? Negotiations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period in the Czech Republic. \textit{Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences}. Cluj-Napoca: Babes-Bolyai University, 2017, vol.~2017, 50E, p.~90-109. ISSN~1842-2845. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.2017.0006.

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