@article {4409,
	title = {EU Cohesion Policy towards territorial cohesion?},
	journal = {Regional Studies},
	year = {2024},
	month = {04/2024},
	pages = {1-5},
	abstract = {Despite being one of the main European Union (EU) policy goals, expressed in the EU treaty and expected to be fostered by EU Cohesion Policy, territorial cohesion is still an under-researched scientific concept and policy process. Against this background, this special issue provides novel theoretical and practical perspectives on the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy and territorial cohesion, particularly through the analysis of EU Cohesion Policy impacts and its contribution to territorial cooperation processes, regional and urban development strategies, as well as sustainable transitions.},
	keywords = {EU cohesion policy, regional development, sustainable transition, territorial cohesion, territorial cooperation},
	doi = {10.1080/00343404.2024.2349736},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2024.2349736},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Eduardo Medeiros and Oto Potluka and Barbara Demeterova}
}
@inbook {4293,
	title = {Introduction},
	booktitle = {Successes \& Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1-8},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	organization = {De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin/Warsaw},
	isbn = {9788395720451},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9788395720451-001},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9788395720451/10.1515/9788395720451-001.xml},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak and Oto Potluka}
}
@book {4280,
	title = {Successes \& Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {208},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	organization = {De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin/Warsaw},
	abstract = {Regions in the EU{\textquoteright}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.},
	keywords = {Central and Eastern Europe, cohesion policy, convergence, EU funds, European Union, regeneration, Southern Europe},
	issn = {978-83-957204-4-4},
	doi = {10.1515/9788395720451},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/580682?language=en},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak and Oto Potluka}
}
@article {3954,
	title = {Non-profit leadership at local level: Reflections from Central and Eastern Europe},
	journal = {Local Economy},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2017},
	month = {06/2017},
	pages = {297-315},
	abstract = {Successful 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{\textquoteright}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 Pozna{\'n}. 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{\textquoteright}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.},
	keywords = {Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, Hungary, leadership, local development, local elections, non-profit organizations, Poland, Slovakia},
	issn = {1470-9325 },
	doi = {10.1177/0269094217707281},
	url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269094217707281},
	author = {Oto Potluka and Judit Kalman and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
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