Limits of Europeanisation at the municipal level: evidence from the Republic of Cyprus

Andreas Kirlappos

Local Government Studies, 2021, vol. 47, issue 4, 637-656

Abstract: The Republic of Cyprus is a small EU member-state whose structures reproduce a resilient domestic tradition of increased centralism. As expected, this restricts local government whose actors demonstrate differentiations in their overall role and responsibilities. This work utilises the vertical research dimension of top-down Europeanisation to investigate the influence of European Integration at the Municipal level and the Municipal reactions to it. It adopts a local government comparative perspective to analyse the two latest cohesion policy programmatic periods (2007–2013 and 2014–2020).This work utilises explicit analytical contexts (Europeanisation and historical institutionalism) to deliver a theoretically and empirically informed analysis based on empirical data resulting from two field studies (2013 and 2019). The research results indicate that the effects of Europeanisation and the Municipal reactions to them have been path dependent and moderate at best. It is verified that current decisions reinforce the basic features of the path limiting Municipal role.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2020.1753707

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