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How Cities Encounter Europe: Mechanisms and Modes

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Research Design in European Studies

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Cities have gained prominence on the economic and political stage in Europe. They are centres for the accumulation and production of wealth, functioning at times as a bulwark against the effects of market forces, and at times as places of social and political inequalities (Brenner, 1999, 2004; Goldsmith, 2003; John, 2001; Le Galès, 2002). The rise of international and European institutions has favoured the transfer of regulatory authority downwards to sub-national territories, that is regions and cities, and in some circumstances, upwards in favour of supranational territorial configurations (Kazepov, 2005; Lefèvre, 1998; Le Galès, 1998).

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Dossi, S. (2012). How Cities Encounter Europe: Mechanisms and Modes. In: Research Design in European Studies. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137005090_9

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