Regional development policy and economic leadership: an analysis of the scalar conundrum

Pugalis, L

Regional development policy and economic leadership: an analysis of the scalar conundrum

Pugalis, L

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Citation:: Empirical Policy Research - Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, 2013
Issue Date:: 2013

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dc.contributor.author	Pugalis, L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8987-6356	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Huang, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Empirical Policy Research - Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, 2013	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-62520-004-4	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/119498
dc.description.abstract	At what scale should regional development policy be administered? Indeed, should economic leadership be constituted across similar scales of governance? These crucial questions have caught the interest of academics, policymakers and politicians across all global regions. Decentralization is a favored policy administered in response to the dynamics of economic globalization, especially in an age of fiscal austerity as public service responsibilities are increasingly being devolved to alternative scales. This paper addresses these theoretical and practical questions through the case of England, which in 2010, in contrast to other European countries, initiated the disassembly of formal regional machinery. The paper interrogates the political, economic and administrative dimensions for this course of action and examines the configuration of informal public-private economic leadership partnerships that have succeeded formal regional machinery. The research reveals a noteworthy correlation between these latest scalar entities and those that have been trialed over the past 50 years. This leads the paper to conclude that the search for a scalar solution to the governance of development is set to continue as the scalar conundrum remains.	en_US
dc.publisher	Untested Ideas	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Empirical Policy Research - Letting the Data Speak for Themselves	en_US
dc.title	Regional development policy and economic leadership: an analysis of the scalar conundrum	en_US
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Abstract:

At what scale should regional development policy be administered? Indeed, should economic leadership be constituted across similar scales of governance? These crucial questions have caught the interest of academics, policymakers and politicians across all global regions. Decentralization is a favored policy administered in response to the dynamics of economic globalization, especially in an age of fiscal austerity as public service responsibilities are increasingly being devolved to alternative scales. This paper addresses these theoretical and practical questions through the case of England, which in 2010, in contrast to other European countries, initiated the disassembly of formal regional machinery. The paper interrogates the political, economic and administrative dimensions for this course of action and examines the configuration of informal public-private economic leadership partnerships that have succeeded formal regional machinery. The research reveals a noteworthy correlation between these latest scalar entities and those that have been trialed over the past 50 years. This leads the paper to conclude that the search for a scalar solution to the governance of development is set to continue as the scalar conundrum remains.

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