TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Gröbe, Benjamin
A1  - Grohs, Stephan
A1  - Porth, Jan
T1  - Local responses to European Integration: patterns of Europe-related activities of German local governments
JF  - Local Government Studies
N2  - Europeanisation situates local governments in a constantly changing environment, bringing challenges, opportunities, and constraints. These circumstances raise the question, how 
local authorities adapt to the process of European integration, face its challenges, and use 
its diverse opportunity structures. The article explores four dimensions, through which Europeanisation hits the ground of local government: downloading, uploading, dissemi-nation, and horizontal networking. It examines the distribution of different types of Europe-related activities at the local level using data from a survey sent to all 396 independent cities, towns, and municipalities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Our empirical analysis provides an overview of the most and least frequent Europe-related activities within the different types of local authorities. The findings of our multivariate analysis shows that next to the direct affectedness by Europeanisation, the municipalities’ capacities in terms of financial and institutional resources have a major influence on their efforts towards Europe.
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 1743-9388
SS  - 1743-9388
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2105840
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2105840
VL  - 49
IS  - 6
SP  - 1410
EP  - 1433
S1  - 23
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -