Is Europe Good for You?: EU Spending and Well-Being

Front Cover -- Is Europe Good For Your?: Eu Spending And Well- Being -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures And Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- One Rethinking Regional Development -- The Gap -- The Argument -- The Empirical Context: Eu Regional Policy -- The Structure Of The Book -- Two Social Goals In Eu Regional Development Policy -- Regional Policymaking -- Project Funding -- Social Mainstreaming In Eu Regional Policy -- Regulatory Mainstreaming -- Implementation Mainstreaming -- Conclusion Three A Theory Of Eu Spending And Regional Well-being -- Conceptualizing Regional Well-being -- Globalization, Technology And Regional Well-being -- Eu Social Investment And Regional Well-being -- Capabilities -- Institutions And Funding Practices -- Economic, Political And Social Context Conditions -- Conclusion -- Four Patterns Of Regional Well-being -- Taking Stock: Existing Measures Of Well-being -- Measuring Regional Well-being -- Distributive Justice -- Capabilities -- Mapping Regional Well-being -- Life Tends To Be Better In Rich Regions -- Poverty And Inequality Remain Largely Unchanged Conclusion -- Five Eu Spending Effects On Regional Well-being -- Estimating Capabilities: Research Design -- Measuring Capabilities -- Measuring Eu Funding -- Measuring Regional Context Factors Shaping Capabilities -- Weak Eu Spending Effects On Capabilities -- Discussion -- Estimating Distributive Justice: Research Design -- Eu Spending Harms Distributive Justice -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Six Barriers To Improving Regional Well-being -- Social And Economic Investments Remain Siloed -- Small Amounts Of Social Funding -- Small Amounts Spread Thinly And To Richer Areas Informational Asymmetries -- Weak Administrative Capacity -- Conclusion -- Seven Regional Well-being, Inclusive Growth And Eu Legitimacy -- Summary Of Argument -- Implications For Inclusive Growth -- Implications For The Eu's Legitimacy In The Eyes Of Citizens -- Avenues For Future Research -- The Effects Of Eu Spending On Subjective Well-being -- Public Attitudes And Eu Spending Effects -- Eu Spending Effects On Gender Inequality -- Appendix A: Qualitative And Standardized Interview Data -- Appendix B: Eu Social And Economic Investments* -- Description Of Social Funding Targets Description Of Economic Funding Targets -- Appendix C: Measuring Poverty And Inequality -- Net Equivalized Household Income -- Weights -- Poverty Line -- Creating Poverty Measures -- Creating Income Inequality Measures -- Appendix D: Patterns Of Regional Well-being -- Appendix E: Determinants Of Regional Well-being -- Description Of Social Funding Targets -- Description Of Economic Funding Targets -- Net Equivalized Household Income -- Weights -- Poverty Line -- Creating Poverty Measures -- Creating Income Inequality Measures -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Lisa Dellmuth. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.