ABSTRACT
This book has opened a knowledge perspective on the exploration of stability and change of policy development in the enlarged European Union (EU) through the presentation of a set of both theoretical and empirical contributions, with particular regard for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the run up to, and aftermath of the 2004 and 2007 enlargement rounds. This exploration into ‘the role of knowledge in the policy process’ (Radaelli 1995) is a consideration of the interplay of knowledge and policy development within the polyarchic, multi-level and cross-scalar policy landscape of spatial planning in Europe, examining how data, ideas and argument translate into the powers that shape or ‘frame’ (Schön and Rein 1994) the course of spatial policy development through organizational structures or ‘arenas of action’ (Steinmo et al. 1992; Hall and Taylor 1996; Lowndes 1996).
