an article by Will Rossiter (Nottingham Trent University, UK) published in Local Economy Volume 31 Issue 8 (December 2016)
Abstract
This paper addresses the implementation (or mediation) of industrial policy at the regional and local level in the northern sub-region of the English East Midlands. At the heart of both New Labour and Coalition Government policy on local and regional economic development was a simple proposition to the effect that if decision-making for economic development could be better aligned to ‘functional economic geographies’, better economic outcomes should result.
The abolition of Regional Development Agencies and creation of Local Enterprise Partnerships brought this proposition into sharp focus. This paper explores the consequences of this shift in the spatial scale of decision making for the development process and policy content of place based economic strategies.
Strategies produced for three ‘nested’ geographic areas in the north midlands are compared. An apparent tension between economic development and institutional trajectories is considered.
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Thursday, 1 November 2012
Life after Regions? The Evolution of City-regionalism in England
an article by John Harrison (Loughborough University, UK) published in Regional Studies
Volume 46 Issue 9 (October 2012)
Abstract
This paper examines the evolving pattern of city-regional governance in England.
Following the demise of English regional policy in 2004, city-regions have come to represent the in vogue spatial scale amongst policy élites. The result has been a proliferation of actual and proposed policies and institutions designed to operate at a, variously defined, city-regional scale in England.
Nevertheless, attempts to build a city-regional tier of governance have been tentative and lacking coherence.
Alongside this, city-regions are to be found emerging alongside existing tiers of economic governance and spatial planning.
Arguing that what is being witnessed is not ‘life after regions’ but life with, or alongside, regions, the analysis presented argues that to understand why contemporary state reorganisation results in a multiplication of the scales of economic governance and spatial planning, it must be recognised how the state shapes policies in such a way as to protect its legitimacy in maintaining regulatory control and management of the economy.
The final section relates these findings to wider debates on state rescaling and speculates on the future role of transition models in sociospatial theory.
JEL classifications: O18, R10, R58
Abstract
This paper examines the evolving pattern of city-regional governance in England.
Following the demise of English regional policy in 2004, city-regions have come to represent the in vogue spatial scale amongst policy élites. The result has been a proliferation of actual and proposed policies and institutions designed to operate at a, variously defined, city-regional scale in England.
Nevertheless, attempts to build a city-regional tier of governance have been tentative and lacking coherence.
Alongside this, city-regions are to be found emerging alongside existing tiers of economic governance and spatial planning.
Arguing that what is being witnessed is not ‘life after regions’ but life with, or alongside, regions, the analysis presented argues that to understand why contemporary state reorganisation results in a multiplication of the scales of economic governance and spatial planning, it must be recognised how the state shapes policies in such a way as to protect its legitimacy in maintaining regulatory control and management of the economy.
The final section relates these findings to wider debates on state rescaling and speculates on the future role of transition models in sociospatial theory.
JEL classifications: O18, R10, R58
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