Behind Allocation of EU Funding - A Quantitative Study of the Relation between Internal Factors of Municipalities and Allocation of EU Funding in the Municipalities of Skåne
(2010) STVM17 20101Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study allocation of EU funding to the municipalities of Skåne between 2007 and 2009 in order to determine if there are internal factors which are of importance to the allocation of EU funding for the municipalities in Skåne. The objective is to study if a relation between internal factors of the municipalities and the amount of EU funding allocated can be observed and what such a potential relation shows.
The analytical framework encompasses three different kinds of internal factors which are studied in turn; resource factors, structural factors and political factors. These factors form the basis for eight hypotheses which are tested by the means of statistical data analysis. The statistical material... (More) - The aim of this thesis is to study allocation of EU funding to the municipalities of Skåne between 2007 and 2009 in order to determine if there are internal factors which are of importance to the allocation of EU funding for the municipalities in Skåne. The objective is to study if a relation between internal factors of the municipalities and the amount of EU funding allocated can be observed and what such a potential relation shows.
The analytical framework encompasses three different kinds of internal factors which are studied in turn; resource factors, structural factors and political factors. These factors form the basis for eight hypotheses which are tested by the means of statistical data analysis. The statistical material consists of material collected first hand from the municipalities, and already existing statistical data gathered from Statistics Sweden, kommundatabas.se and Kfakta06. Out of the 33 municipalities in Skåne 18 are included in the study. Furthermore, only EU funding from the two structural funds, the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development fund, are being studied.
The result shows that there is no relation between internal factors and the amount of allocated EU funding. Only when lowering the certainty level to 90 per cent the variables political majority and population density show statistically significant correlations with the amount of allocated EU funding. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Terese LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM17 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- EU funding, structural funds, internal factors, municipality, quantitative study
- language
- English
- id
- 1607755
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-30 16:23:22
- date last changed
- 2010-06-30 16:23:22
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