Evaluating The European Approach To Rural Development: Grass-Roots Experiences Of The Leader Programme (Perspectives On Rural Policy And Planning)

This book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER's achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER important is not only that it has a major role in rural development efforts, but also that it has a pioneering role in the new type of governance, participatory democracy. Asking whether LEADER strengthens local democracy or not, this book also looks at how it affects the power balance among stakeholders, between national and local actors and between genders.

• • Author: Professor Leo Granberg, Dr Imre Kovách, Professor Kjell Andersson
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Mar 28, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 258 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472443764
• • ISBN-13: 9781472443762