GORE, Tony (2018). Cities and their hinterlands 10 years on: Local and regional governance still under debate. People, Place and Policy Online, 11 (3), 150-164.
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Abstract
This paper reviews changes over the last 10 years in the governance arrangements
and processes involved in sub-national economic development and cross-boundary
collaboration. It begins with a summary of the institutional changes in the main
countries of the UK, in the dual context of fiscal retrenchment and neo-liberal
deregulation. The picture that emerges is one of a confused patchwork in England;
incremental modifications in Scotland; and embryonic developments in Wales. This is
then contrasted with a range of experiences in other countries, involving wholesale
recentralisation and a sidelining of local and regional institutions at one end of the
spectrum, to resistance to restructuring through repurposing, increased mutual
collaboration and improved management at the other. However, enhanced economic
links and benefits do not automatically flow from any particular form of rescaled
governance arrangements. As our original article found, the key ingredients are robust
and inclusive political and decision-making processes, a suite of appropriate policy
instruments and deployment of sufficient resources to ensure that they have an effect.
The paper also concludes that a more comprehensive theoretical framework is needed
to advance understanding of what lies behind different forms of state governance
rescaling, and what makes a given instance more (or less) effective than another.
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