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

Front Cover\nIs Europe Good For Your?: EU Spending and Well- Being\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of Figures and Tables\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nPreface\nONE Rethinking Regional Development\n	The gap\n	The argument\n	The empirical context: EU regional policy\n	The structure of the book\nTWO Social Goals in EU Regional Development Policy\n	Regional policymaking\n	Project funding\n	Social mainstreaming in EU regional policy\n		Regulatory mainstreaming\n		Implementation mainstreaming\n	Conclusion\nTHREE A Theory of EU Spending and Regional Well-Being\n	Conceptualizing regional well-being\n	Globalization, technology and regional well-being\n	EU social investment and regional well-being\n		Capabilities\n		Institutions and funding practices\n	Economic, political and social context conditions\n	Conclusion\nFOUR Patterns of Regional Well-Being\n	Taking stock: existing measures of well-being\n	Measuring regional well-being\n		Distributive justice\n		Capabilities\n	Mapping regional well-being\n		Life tends to be better in rich regions\n		Poverty and inequality remain largely unchanged\n	Conclusion\nFIVE EU Spending Effects on Regional Well-Being\n	Estimating capabilities: research design\n		Measuring capabilities\n		Measuring EU funding\n		Measuring regional context factors shaping capabilities\n	Weak EU spending effects on capabilities\n		Discussion\n	Estimating distributive justice: research design\n	EU spending harms distributive justice\n		Discussion\n	Conclusion\nSIX Barriers to Improving Regional Well-Being\n	Social and economic investments remain siloed\n	Small amounts of social funding\n	Small amounts spread thinly and to richer areas\n	Informational asymmetries\n	Weak administrative capacity\n	Conclusion\nSEVEN Regional Well-Being, Inclusive Growth and EU Legitimacy\n	Summary of argument\n	Implications for inclusive growth\n	Implications for the EU’s legitimacy in the eyes of citizens\n	Avenues for future research\n		The effects of EU spending on subjective well-being\n		Public attitudes and EU spending effects\n		EU spending effects on gender inequality\nAppendix A: Qualitative and Standardized Interview Data\nAppendix B: EU Social and Economic Investments*\n	Description of social funding targets\n	Description of economic funding targets\nAppendix C: Measuring Poverty and Inequality\n	Net equivalized household income\n	Weights\n	Poverty line\n	Creating poverty measures\n	Creating income inequality measures\nAppendix D: Patterns of Regional Well-Being\nAppendix E: Determinants of Regional Well-Being\n	Description of social funding targets\n	Description of economic funding targets\n	Net equivalized household income\n	Weights\n	Poverty line\n	Creating poverty measures\n	Creating income inequality measures\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover