REGIONAL PAROXYSMS IN PORTUGAL: TOP-DOWN OR BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT?
The current European development paradigm implies a strategy which takes people and territories (people-centred and place-based policies) into account. Nevertheless, financing such a strategy entails following pre-established objectives. This text explores the "schizoid" character resultin...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU) |
| Repository: | Revista brasileira de gestão e desenvolvimento regional |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.rbgdr.net:article/5352 |
| Online Access: | https://www.rbgdr.net/revista/index.php/rbgdr/article/view/5352 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Portugal 2020 Territorial Development Region Regional Paroxysms. |
| Summary: | The current European development paradigm implies a strategy which takes people and territories (people-centred and place-based policies) into account. Nevertheless, financing such a strategy entails following pre-established objectives. This text explores the "schizoid" character resulting from this duplicity in the Portugal 2020, presenting a systematization of developmental paradoxes according to three levels of analysis: European mega-regions; national regions; and intra-regional processes. As a corollary, it is proposed that regional development can be understood in terms of two major problematics ("˜follow the people' vs. "˜follow the money' and evidence-based policy vs. policy-based evidence) and two developmental traps (the money trap and the territory trap). It is concluded that the Region as a development territory reveals a strategic, administrative and sociological fragility. |
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