ABSTRACT
Most of the chapters in this section of the book have described and analysed the content and operation of regional development programmes in individual UK regions: western Scotland, London, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside, the Highlands and Islands and Northern Ireland. This last chapter of the UK part of the volume re-examines the key features of seven EU programmes from a comparative perspective. Reporting on the findings of a research project supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, it explores some of the most important characteristics of the design, operation and management of regional development programmes in four regions: Scotland, Yorkshire and Humberside, the West Midlands and the South West. In each of these regions a selection of European programmes was examined in detail and the views of the partners responsible for the programmes were sought in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses evident in the procedures used for strategy formulation, the negotiation of a Single Programming Document (SPD) and the subsequent implementation of the agreed programme. A summary of the research design and the status of each of the programmes examined is provided in Table 12.1. Research design and case studies
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Aspect of policy studied |
Objective 1 |
Objective 2 |
Objective 5b |
Other programmes and European activities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Scotland |
The Highlands and Islands |
Eastern Scotland * |
North Sea Commission |
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Yorkshire and Humberside |
Yorkshire and Humberside |
Northern Uplands * |
RECHAR |
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West Midlands |
West Midlands |
The Marches * |
European Regional Partnership |
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South-West |
South West England |
KONVER |
Signifies that the case study area is part of this SPD.
Sources: Various SPDs, Research undertaken by authors, Commission of the European Communities 1995c.