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This book examines how the implementation of the EU Regional Policy supports the multi-level governance theory.It deals with the subject areas of devolution, aspects of recent Welsh politics, and concepts of multi-level governance.Its analytical focus around the multi level governance themes highlights how the multiple levels that characterise the new political landscape enhance the role of sub-national authorities at the EU level.It discusses the theoretical and empirical literatures on Wales as a nation´ and also the current debates about governance´ in the context of European integration. It contains an analysis of the position of Wales in the UK´s post-devolution governance, with an up-to- date treatment of the most recent developments in the on-going devolution process in Wales. The conclusions drawn in the book are based on the findings from a mixture of extensive interviews and documentary analysis, and offers a useful summary of the empirical findings.It concludes that the potent mixture of devolution and EU Regional Policy has produced a new form of multi-level governance in Wales and realigned the British political landscape.

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Dr Frankie Asare-Donkoh is a journalist and academic.He worked as a journalist in Ghana from 1987 to 2001,winning three awards including the Best News Reporter for 1995.He holds MA (International Journalism) and a PhD(Multi-Level Governance) from Cardiff University,where he was an Associate Lecturer in Politics from October 2005 to June 2009

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