@techreport{RieseReiterGroebeetal.,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Dorothee Riese and Renate Reiter and Benjamin Gr{\"o}be and Stephan Grohs},
  title     = {Doing Europe: Local Governments as Agents of European Cohesion},
  institution = {FernUniversit{\"a}t Hagen},
  address   = {Hagen},
  pages     = {III, 14},
  abstract  = {Academia and practitioners agree that the local level is crucial for EU cohesion. However, further conceptual and empirical development is needed. The paper introduces an under-standing of European cohesion consisting of a horizontal and a vertical dimension, covering individuals' relationships with each other and the polity. We review the predominantly nation-state-focused, interdisciplinary literature on support for the European Union (vertical dimension) and societal Europeanization (horizontal dimension) through a 'local lens', arguing in favour of combining the two dimensions in one framework of cohesion. We derive empirical expectations about the role of local agency for European cohesion and operationa-lise European cohesion, thus designing a coherent framework for analysing the local foundations of European cohesion.},
  language  = {en}
}