TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keating,Michael
TI  - The European regions at issue
PY  - 2017///.
							
N1  - 72
N2  - A regional or “meso” level of regulation and policy-making has emerged in Europe. This cannot adequately be explained by functional imperatives or drivers. A constructivist perspective sees the region as the outcome of political contestation over the definition and meaning of territory. Six competing conceptual frames for regionalism are proposed: integrative, competitive, welfare, identity, government, and the region as a refraction of social and economic interests. Any given case will reflect a balance among these conceptions. Such an understanding permits a combination of comparative analysis with an understanding of individual cases and avoids both dismissal of territory and territorial determinism
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-pole-sud-2017-1-page-21?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -