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Institutions, Discourse and Regional Development

The Scottish Development Agency and the Politics of Regional Policy

Henrik Halkier (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

598 Seiten

2006
European Interuniversity Press (Verlag)
978-90-5201-275-9 (ISBN)

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Why are some regional development strategies adopted and others rejected? Only limited systematic attention has been paid to the politics of regional policy, including the role of institutions, discourse, and political debate in shaping this major area of public policy. The book develops an institutionalist approach to the study of regional policy, capable of spanning major European development paradigms and accounting for the dynamic relationship between organisations, policies and political discourse.
This conceptual framework is then applied to the Scottish Development Agency, a development body famed across Europe for its innovative policies but surrounded by political controversy in Scotland. A detailed study of corporate strategies, policy implementation, and the wider British environment questions existing interpretations of the organisation which tend to vilify anti-interventionist Thatcherites or glorify shrewd development professionals.
Instead the author proposes an alternative synthesis which highlights the interplay between institutions, discourse and regional development in the politics of regional policy.

The Author: Henrik Halkier is Professor of Regional and Tourism Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has written about regional policy in Denmark and Britain from a comparative perspective while covering European, national and regional initiatives. Current research interests also include regional innovation strategies, tourism policy and place branding.

Contents: The politics of regional policy – Institutionalism and public policy – Thatcherism between political discourse and policy implementation – Ideology and territorial politics in Scotland – Indigenous growth versus inward investment in regional development strategy.

Reihe/Serie	Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism ; 8
	Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism ; 8
	Régionalisme et Fédéralisme /Regionalism and Federalism ; 8
Zusatzinfo	31 tables and 41 graphs
Verlagsort	Bruxelles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	830 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-5201-275-X / 905201275X
ISBN-13	978-90-5201-275-9 / 9789052012759
Zustand	Neuware