TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zdzisław Mach
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2193-2352
SN  - 9783653057904
TI  - Local Community, Power and European Integration
DO  - 10.3726/b11810
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049536
N2  - This collection of articles is the result of the research project «The Polish local society in the process of European integration – a decade of experience», financed by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). The aim was to investigate the process of integration in the EU of six selected local Polish communities. The same six communities had been studied ten years before, when Poland was preparing for the EU accession. The research was based on qualitative methodology. The results show that the knowledge of the EU in local Poland remains at a very low level. The exception is competence in the field of EU structural funds. These funds are the main factor which determines the positive attitude of Poles towards the EU and the Polish membership in it. At the same time the process of the construction of a European identity in terms of values remains very problematic.
KW  - Local Poland, Local authorities, EU membership, EU funds, European identity, Utilitarianism, Collective memory
LA  - English
ER  -