Understanding citizen perception of European Union Cohesion Policy: the role of the local context
研究基于地方社会经济背景如何影响公民对欧盟凝聚政策的感知，识别出欧洲NUTS-2区域中多种政策实施环境，为政策制定者理解区域差异提供参考。
The way in which Cohesion Policy is perceived by citizens is a crucial issue for the process of European identity-building. Based on the idea that citizens’ perceptions depend on the local socioeconomic context in which Cohesion Policy is implemented, the paper seeks to define alternative combinations of the economic, social and institutional features of different local policy implementation settings, and to identify them empirically in European NUTS-2 regions. The results highlight a broad variety of policy settings, whose characteristics are relevant to the outcome of Cohesion Policy implementation.