Difficulties of the EU – the Cohesion Policy Implementation System in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The article deals with the application of theories of European integration on
a case study. In the first part of the article the current state of the Czech-EU
structural policy is described. The second part deals with the theoretical
definition of the topic and leads to a definition of the hypothesis and the
research method. The main theoretical approach for the case study is the
multi-level governance theory, which describes the multi-level sharing of
authority among various types of actors. None of those actors has the
power to define the final version of a given policy. The case study, which in
detail examines the development and the efficiency of the implementation
system of structural policy in Czech Republic, proves that this environment
can cause an overuse of free-riding tactics and consequently the so-called
system rigidity.