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What is so special about European integration ? The implementation of the Community Initiative URBAN I in Berlin (1994-1999) by Charlotte Halpern, RTN URBeurope
This paper questions the mechanisms under which the European Community
Initiative URBAN I (1994-1999) was likely to exert an impact on Berlin’s urban
policy system during the 1990s. However, other factors such as globalization or
privatization processes also participate in the weakening of local institutional
arrangements. As this external innovation hit this weakened policy system, an
opportunity was given to actors willing to challenge the existing balance of
power. This paper assumes that the European Union could become a vector for
institutional change at the domestic level, mainly through its impact on the
parameters of an undergoing process of change such as agenda- and problemsetting, local networks and sources of legitimacy. Download the Cahier N°1
Updated : 30 august 2005