N° 2013/23 Relational policy spaces in border regions

By focussing on transport policies in the border regions of Basel and Luxembourg, the working paper N° 2013-23 from CEPS analyses measures of persistency of national preferences among policy actors, mapping their perceived ‘policy spaces of action’ and conceptualising these ‘policy spaces’ as relational. Based on a combination of in-depth interviews, cognitive maps, and social network analysis, it shows that large spatio-cultural differences are still prevailing among network actors, thus potentially impacting decisions taken in policy networks.