Published: 2019-12-31

Cross-border cooperation of communes and poviats in southern Poland

Agata Nijander-Dudzińska , Demetriusz Wojakowski , Artur Wołek
Border and Regional Studies
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/ppbs1120

Abstract

The article studies cross-border cooperation of local self-governments as an instrument of local public policies. The article is based on an analysis of all identified cases of real cooperation projects of communes and poviats of Małopolska, Podkarpacie and the eastern part of Silesia from the period of 2004-2015. The research suggests that an intensive cross-border cooperation correlates with a strategic approach to international cooperation on the part of communes and those local governments that are able to use international projects to achieve their policy goals have more projects, versatile partners, and different areas of cooperation. Other local governments perceive international cooperation as beneficial but marginal to their core activities which presses them to focus on projects from the area of culture and to choose geographically close partners. Human and institutional resources seem to be crucial for the cross-border cooperation and, as a consequence, urban local governments are much more eager to cooperate than rural communes.

Keywords:

cross-border cooperation, local self-government, public policy, Central Europe, Małopolska, Podkarpacie, Interreg

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Nijander-Dudzińska, A., Wojakowski, D., & Wołek, A. (2019). Cross-border cooperation of communes and poviats in southern Poland. Border and Regional Studies, 7(4), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.25167/ppbs1120

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