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标题：Lang, T.and Görmar, F.(eds.): Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation.Re-thinking Spatial Policies in Europe
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作者：Szabolcs Fabula
期刊名称：Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：2064-5031
电子版ISSN：2064-5147
出版年度：2019
卷号：68
期号：4
DOI：10.15201/hungeobull.68.4.6
语种：English
出版社：Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
摘要：The neoliberal turn in the late 1980s and its effects on the regional development and cohesion policy of the European Union are widely discussed issues in academic forums.Though the European Union still addresses spatial equity through redistribution by “strengthening of its economic, social and territorial cohesion” and “reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions” (European Union 2012, p.127), embracing neoliberal ideology has led to new approaches in European and national policy making.Post-2000 events such as the 2008 economic crisis and the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, the Europe 2020 Strategy and its Territorial Agenda have strengthened the promotion of neoliberal principles including regional competitiveness, innovation and economic growth.Under these circumstances, a total sum of 13 new Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states joined in 2004, 2007 and 2013, and their incorporation posed new challenges to EU cohesion policy due to institutional and infrastructural weaknesses and low levels of economic development in certain areas.The development of the European Community has been spatially uneven since its very foundation in 1957, but the above policy changes have led to increasing regional polarisation in the last three decades.It is now proven that community- and national-level policies affect regions very differently, even if these policies are designed to ensure equal treatment across space.In addition, the outcomes and success of these policies largely depend on the quality of governments at various territorial levels (European Commission 2017).Therefore, it is crucial to understand how uneven development and regional polarisation in Europe work out at different scales and at different places, and how policy making and governance shape these processes.