eprintid: 10074233 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/07/42/33 datestamp: 2019-05-24 08:24:23 lastmod: 2021-10-01 23:56:10 status_changed: 2019-05-24 08:24:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Servillo, L title: Tailored polities in the shadow of the state's hierarchy. The CLLD implementation and a future research agenda ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F39 keywords: CLLD, meta-governance, local development, institutional technology, spatial imaginary, spatial-temporal fix note: Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way 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. date: 2019-04-03 date_type: published publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD official_url: http://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1569595 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1656884 doi: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1569595 lyricists_name: Servillo, Loris lyricists_id: LASER29 actors_name: Bracey, Alan actors_id: ABBRA90 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: European Planning Studies volume: 27 number: 4 pagerange: 678-698 pages: 21 issn: 1469-5944 citation: Servillo, L; (2019) Tailored polities in the shadow of the state's hierarchy. The CLLD implementation and a future research agenda. European Planning Studies , 27 (4) pp. 678-698. 10.1080/09654313.2019.1569595 <https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1569595>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074233/1/Tailored%20polities%20in%20the%20shadow%20of%20the%20state%20s%20hierarchy%20The%20CLLD%20implementation%20and%20a%20future%20research%20agenda.pdf