Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe
研究了中欧和东欧地区行为体如何应对欧盟政策，通过捷克俄斯特拉发大都市区的案例，发现国家层面以社会学习为主，地方层面以强制为主。
Europeanization affects policies in much of Europe, but has uneven impacts in different regions. The aim of this paper is to causally explain how and why actors reacted to the European Union (EU) policy. We tested the presence of social learning and coercion mechanisms and how their operation was conditioned by policy capacities (contextual factors). Europeanization is traced through integrated territorial investment (ITI) implementation, a new EU Cohesion Policy tool. The Ostrava Metropolitan Region case study in Czechia revealed that national-level actors had responded dominantly to ITI by social learning and local actors with coercion.