State spatial restructuring in Greece: Forced rescaling, unresponsive localities

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-348

  Chorianopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

competitiveness; governance; Kallikratis Plan; local authorities; path dependency; state rescaling

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; CENTRALIZATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATION STATE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

GREECE;

EID: 84867419170     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: 14617145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969776411430351     Document Type: Article

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