The End of the Regional Experiment? Some Implications of Scottish Local Government Reorganisation for English Regions

McAteer, Mark

doi:10.1332/030557397782213701

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“…Such nationally orchestrated regionalisation can be seen as a variation on the theme of centrally orchestrated regionalism identified in relation to regional development agencies (RDAs) in England by Harrison (2008) whereby the balance of power between regional and national actors is weighted in favour of central government. These regional transport initiatives are responses to the institutional fragmentation that resulted from the hollowing out of regional government in 1996 through the abolition of regional and county councils (McAteer 1997; Midwinter and McGarvey 1997). This left a single tier of all‐purpose local authorities (32 in Scotland and 22 in Wales).…”

Section: The Regional Transport Partnerships Initiative In Scotlandmentioning

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New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland

MacKinnon

Shaw

2010

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New state spaces can be seen as products of the interaction between emerging initiatives and pre-existing institutional arrangements (Peck 1998, Space and Polity 2:5-31). In the devolved territories of the UK devolution has created new political centres of policy formulation and this paper is concerned with how devolved policy initiatives are reshaping and rescaling sub-national spaces of governance. We focus on the rescaling of transport governance in Scotland through a nationally orchestrated process of regionalisation involving the creation of Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs), an initiative that has been shaped by tensions between changing national political objectives and local interests. Our approach draws on Neil Brenner's "new state spaces" (NSS) framework, which has value in emphasising the historically embedded and path-dependent nature of restructuring processes. At the same time, its abstract nature leads the NSS approach to privilege the broad processes that generate new configurations of state power over the complex politics associated with the restructuring of particular spaces. In response, we suggest a new theoretical synthesis that draws NSS together with the ancillary notions of "regional armatures" and "the politics of scale" to provide a stronger purchase on the political agency and struggles that "form" and "mould" particular spaces.

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Section: The Regional Transport Partnerships Initiative In Scotlandmentioning

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New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland

MacKinnon

Shaw

2010

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“…Both involved rescaling in the form of some ‘upwards’ transfer of powers from local authorities (Brenner 2009; Buchs 2009). These initiatives are responses to the institutional fragmentation that resulted from the hollowing out of regional government in 1996 through the abolition of regional and county councils (McAteer 1997).…”

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Moving on with ‘filling in’? Some thoughts on state restructuring after devolution

Shaw

MacKinnon

2010

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The term 'filling in' was developed in the context of research into UK devolution in order to move beyond the literature on the 'hollowing out' of the national state. We critically unpack the concept of filling in and assess its value, identifying three main ambiguities. First, we emphasise the need to distinguish between what we term structural and relational forms of filling in, ensuring a clear analytical separation between structure and agency. Second, we examine the associated scalar politics of devolution, arguing that filling in and hollowing out are not scale-specific processes. Third, we distinguish between filling in as originally advanced, which is time-specific in relation to the process of devolution, and 'pure' forms of filling in which can be seen as time-neutral. In abstracting filling in from the context of devolution in this way, our purpose is to render it capable of wider application to the study of other processes of state restructuring.

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“…When regional councils disbanded in 1996, European competences and personnel transferred to the new unitary Glasgow City Council. For more, see McAteer (1997); Colwell and McLaren (1999). 7 One such example is Bristol, which has had huge difficulty developing strong partnerships and integrated regeneration programmes.…”

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Europeanization at the urban level: Local actors, institutions and the dynamics of multi-level interaction

Marshall¹

2005

Journal of European Public Policy

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EU initiatives provide urban institutions and actors across Europe with new and unprecedented access to information, legitimacy, and not least, financial support. From established local authorities to fledgling neighbourhood partnerships, actors across the urban spectrum see increased European involvement as a central component of innovative governance.This paper proposes a theoretical framework to assess whether European working provokes shifts in the institutionalized norms, beliefs, and values of urban actors, focusing in particular on British cities. In doing so, the paper elaborates a fourpart typology of Europeanization at the urban level, and subsequently applies this typology to the empirical cases of Birmingham and Glasgow. It then attempts to draw some preliminary conclusions about how involvement in EU Structural Fund programmes affects long-standing practices in cities in Britain and across the continent.

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The End of the Regional Experiment? Some Implications of Scottish Local Government Reorganisation for English Regions

Cited by 9 publications

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New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland

New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland

Moving on with ‘filling in’? Some thoughts on state restructuring after devolution

Europeanization at the urban level: Local actors, institutions and the dynamics of multi-level interaction

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