EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AS A MEAN OF STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY IN RURAL AREAS

Abstract

European policy has had over time two main features: welfare state and democracy. Both issues have defined the model of development in Europe and have led to the European integration project. This model of development and continental integration based on the principles of democracy, freedom and solidarity has proven to work. But, nowadays challenges like globalisation or European enlargement require new instruments to promote and enhance this model.

Citation

Ramos, E. and del Mar Delgado, M. (2003), "EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AS A MEAN OF STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY IN RURAL AREAS", Bell, M.M. and Hendricks, F. (Ed.) Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 135-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-1922(03)09009-7