@article{discovery10074233,
          volume = {27},
           month = {April},
       publisher = {ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR \& FRANCIS LTD},
           pages = {678--698},
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           title = {Tailored polities in the shadow of the state's hierarchy. The CLLD implementation and a future research agenda},
            year = {2019},
         journal = {European Planning Studies},
          number = {4},
          author = {Servillo, L},
             url = {http://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1569595},
        abstract = {The paper provides a theoretical contribution to the multi-level governance debate, discussing the role of the policy instruments in tailoring polities for local development strategies. To this purpose, it examines the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), a policy tool of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020, which has generated more than 3000 local initiatives across the EU. An institutionalist perspective enables a reflection on the multi-level normative dimensions of these local initiatives. A combination of the post-functionalist governance theory, the soft space debate, state-theory and strategic-relational approach provides an interpretative framework to be deployed for a dedicated research agenda. The interpretative challenge is about whether the CLLD enables spatial-temporal fixes in which a deliberative polity pursues a spatial imaginary for an ad-hoc territory. The consequent analytical dimensions can be found in (a) the relationship between attendant ad-hoc polity, policy agenda, territorial design and societal processes; and (b) the meta-governance dimensions that locate the bottom-up constituency of this institutional technology in the shadow of state's hierarchy. An overview of the CLLD implementation across the EU provides evidence on the latter.},
        keywords = {CLLD, meta-governance, local development, institutional technology, spatial imaginary, spatial-temporal fix},
            issn = {1469-5944}
}