National Subversion of Supranational Goals: 'Pork-Barrel' Politics and EU Regional Aid

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作者：
Bloom, Stephen [1 ]
Petrova, Vladislava [1 ]
机构：
[1] So Illinois Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
来源：
EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES | 2013年 / 65卷 / 08期
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D O I：
10.1080/09668136.2013.833014
中图分类号：
K9 [地理];
学科分类号：
0705 ;
摘要：
The structural funds were designed to give the European Commission supranational control over where regional aid was spent. In this article, we argue that domestic pork-barrel' politics determine which regions are awarded regional aid in the new member states of Eastern Europe. Support for our argument comes from a dataset that includes 1,688 European Regional Development Fund grants to Latvia's 118 regions and 1,533 pre-accession Phare awards to Bulgaria's 264 municipalities. In both Bulgaria and Latvia, we find that regional aid projects went to wealthier not poorer localities, and to those that supported coalition parties in the previous election.
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页码：1599 / 1620
页数：22
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