00419nas a2200145   4500008004100000020001800041245001700059210001700076260003000093300000800123100002300131700001800154700001700172856008400189       2020                        eng d  a978839572045100aIntroduction0 aIntroduction  aBerlin/WarsawbDe Gruyter  a1-81 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aPotluka, Oto  uhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9788395720451/10.1515/9788395720451-001.xml02910nam a2200241   4500008004100000022002200041245012700063210006900190260003000259300000800289520211700297653003102414653002002445653001602465653001302481653001902494653001702513653002002530100002302550700001802573700001702591856006002608       2020                        eng d  a978-83-957204-4-400aSuccesses & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe0 aSuccesses Failures in EU Cohesion Policy An Introduction to EU c  aBerlin/WarsawbDe Gruyter  a2083 aRegions in the EU’s Eastern and Southern peripheries tend to perform badly across many rankings from economic development, to quality of government,social justice and innovation potential, despite the fact that the vast majorityof EU structural funding has been spent in these countries. However, these countries followed different development trajectories and reacted differently to the economic crisis. Some of them still struggle, others thrive, others, afteryears of structural transformation, are stuck in a middle-income trap.Successes and failures as a result of EU cohesion implementation are avaluable source of feedback for future plans. Southern part of the EU, and Central and Eastern Europe provide an excellent opportunity to evaluatethem, The whole implementation exercise is sometimes challenging to accomplish, as both the public and private sectors have low absorption capacity. In contrast, positive experiences also emerged. Regions in Central and Eastern European countries witnessed improvements in the form of change in GDP per capita, benchmarked against the EU average during theyears 2008-2015, while Southern Europe improved similarly between 2000-2008. In this volume, the authors cover a variety of aforementioned problems and experiences of either all member states, with special attention to peripheral countries, or to sectoral or regional problems in selected countries. The book begins with an overview of the issues of economic convergence and quality of life in all member states. It also addresses political aspects of EU cohesion policy, including involvement of civil society into this public policy, as well as relationships between cohesion policy support and EU identification. The final section discusses an important novelty in the framework of EU cohesion policy, namely the JESSICA initiative, that is, an instrument offering repayable and recyclable funding targeted at economically-viable and sustainable urban development projects. Authors are engaged in research on EU cohesion policy and represent severaldisciplines: economics, political and social sciences.10aCentral and Eastern Europe10acohesion policy10aconvergence10aEU funds10aEuropean Union10aregeneration10aSouthern Europe1 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aIdczak, Piotr1 aPotluka, Oto  uhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/title/580682?language=en03039nas a2200289   4500008004100000022001500041245008600056210006900142260001200211300001200223490000700235520219400242653003102436653001902467653001202486653001502498653002202513653002002535653002902555653001102584653001302595100001702608700001802625700002302643700001802666856006502684       2017                        eng d  a1470-9325 00aNon-profit leadership at local level: Reflections from Central and Eastern Europe0 aNonprofit leadership at local level Reflections from Central and  c06/2017  a297-3150 v323 aSuccessful leadership in local development requires not only a vision, but good communication skills, stakeholder involvement, strategic planning and coordination and popular support via public participation. Our empirical study contributes to filling the gap in the literature about the role of non-profit leadership in urban and regional development. We study the characteristics of politicians in civil society and that of civil society’s leaders in politics as a prerequisite for successful local development. For this, we draw on the survey data of 374 local politicians from four large cities in Central Europe: Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Poznań. The research affirms that non-profit non-governmental organisations do play an important role in local development and reveals similarities in all analysed cities, though with some variance. Local political elites are identified as engaging significantly in civil society organisations, despite low levels of general trust in these countries. About two-thirds of the local politicians who took part in the survey participate actively in civil society organisations in their respective cities but not coming from a previous non-profit non-governmental organisation employment. Not only are they active, but many of them also have positions as managers or directors, or as members of the board of directors in these organisations. Although neither membership nor leadership in non-profit non-governmental organisations appears to increase a local politician’s chance of being elected, except when those are engaged in local development or environmental issues. As spatial leadership plays an important role in the construction of new agendas and identities we have also investigated the views of local politicians on decentralisation, government service provision efficiency and the importance of several local policy topics, and found some puzzling differences across our V4 cities that possibly reflect cultural differences. Non-profit leadership in urban development is a neglected topic so far in the literature, our study adds empirical results from Central and Eastern Europe, yet there is ample room for future research.10aCentral and Eastern Europe10aCzech Republic10aHungary10aleadership10alocal development10alocal elections10anon-profit organizations10aPoland10aSlovakia1 aPotluka, Oto1 aKalman, Judit1 aMusiałkowska, Ida1 aIdczak, Piotr  uhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269094217707281