Towards a Regional Renaissance? Reconfiguring and Rescaling England's Economic Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Jones (0000-0002-4627-2293, Aberystwyth University, corresponding author), Gordon Macleod (0000-0002-1505-2511, Durham University) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 295-313 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.00295.x |
| OpenAlex | W2017669105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 74 |
Recent years have witnessed a tremendous academic and political appeal to the regional scale as the key with which to rear economic and social revitalization. Learning from exemplars such as Baden Württemberg, certain proponents of a purported ‘new regionalism’ advocate that the economic and democratic deficit in less‐favoured regions may be revitalized by fostering a series of interacting social, economic and institutional networks. This paper provides a discussion of some of the more sophisticated approaches heralding a regional renaissance. These are then deployed through a case study of the restructuring and rescaling of England's economic governance in the late 1990s via the establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). Focusing on the experience of the North‐West region, their analysis reveals that, whilst useful as a form of contextualizing regional transformation and governance, the new regionalist approaches are unable to provide a rigorous framework through which to consider England's own peculiar regional ‘resurgence’. In turn, the authors call for a serious consideration of the state as a critical animateur in both structuring and scaling economic and civic life. The paper concludes that in future research, a lack of sensitivity to situated path‐dependent regional economic and political geographies may serve to reproduce the ‘fantasies’ inherent in some earlier (post‐Fordist)‘transition models
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| Unique citing works | 87 |
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| Citations per year | 3,22 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |