Maura Adshead - Developing European Regions?: Comparative Governance, Policy Networks and European Integration

Comparative Governance, Policy Networks and European Integration

MAURA ADSHEAD
University of Limerick

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

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The best thing about writing a book is the opportunity it affords to publicly acknowledge the help and support of all the people who contributed to its completion. At the outset, Brigid Laffan provided practical support and encouragement towards the doctoral work that forms the basis of this book. Thereafter, I worked up a series of debts in Britain, Ireland and Germany. A generous studentship from the University of Liverpool, together with grants from the Royal Irish Academy, the British Council and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) ensured that none of these debts were financial. In Ireland, Nick Rees and Brid Quinn from the University of Limerick shared information, interviews and obscure references. Eddie Glacken of the Irish Trade Union Trust was extremely helpful in setting up interviews with the 'great and the good' in Dublin and all for no reward. Especial thanks to Joe and Joan O'Kelly who helped me out no end by securing my Irish accommodation and to John Logan, who bent over backwards to secure me time to finish this book. In Germany, Susan Morrissey and Hubertas Jahn, on nothing but the most tenuous of connections, fed and found me, helped with tricky translations, gave of their fax, email and time (and most important of all, their cheese). Rainer Heck and Claudia Rauschen offered more technical support and a refreshing Kur whenever it was needed. Andrea Terstappen helped to arrange interviews and gave me the secret for the best Frikadellen . Herr and Frau Karl Heinz-Fabig made me so welcome, so often, in their guest house, that it began to feel like a second home. In Britain, Sahra Ryklief showed me all the good places to eat and drink in Liverpool (which is much harder than you might think). David and Antonia Phinnemore shared their home, a passion for 'funny beer' and fresh bagels with the newspapers every Sunday. Helen and Jim Leslie looked after me in Dundee and Daniel O'Kelly was especially helpful in organizing the transport for all of my interviews. Finally, as is the tradition with these things, I leave the biggest 'thank-you's and the greatest debts of gratitude to the last. Thank-you to mum and dad for enthusiastic support throughout this study. Thank-you to Stephen Padgett (and Maria too) for offering me a scholarship in Liverpool and for putting up with me thereafter. Last, but by no means least, thank-you to Neil Robinson for all good stuff. It's hard to know what to give to a man to whom you've given more or less everything already but surely a book on European regions will make your life complete.