Special Issue: Multilevel Governance and Partnership for Effective Regional Development Policies: Lessons from EU Cohesion Policy

Contents of this Special Issue of the European Urban and Regional Studies are:

+ Challenges of multi-level governance and partnership: drawing lessons from European Union cohesion policy
Marcin Dąbrowski, John Bachtler and François Bafoil

+ EU cohesion policy, horizontal partnership and the patterns of sub-national governance: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe
Marcin Dąbrowski

+ The conflicting effects of multi-level governance and the partnership principle:Evidence from the Italian experience
Simona Milio

+ Using partnership to ameliorate regional policies? The case of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Catherine Perron

+ EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland: How sustainable is Europeanization?
Maura Adshead

+ The interplay between austerity, domestic territorial reform and European Union Cohesion Policy: Multi-level Governance and the application of the partnership principle in Greece
Anastassios Chardas