Business representation and the UK regions: mapping institutional change

Valler, David; Wood, Andrew; Atkinson, Ian; Betteley, David; Phelps, Nicholas A.; Raco, Mike; Shirlow, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0305-9006(03)00036-9

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“…, 2000: 975–6). We adopt the empirical approach developed in work on business interests in devolved political arrangements in the UK (Valler and Wood, 2004; Valler et al. , 2004) when attempting to assess and map the organization of business interest representation.…”

Section: A Note On Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These weak corporatist arrangements, dismantled by the Thatcher governments in favour of a centrally‐articulated localism (Peck, 1995), have not been re‐established by New Labour. Moreover, business in the UK has been essentially reactive to government initiatives (Grant, 1983), including to New Labour’s devolved political and governmental arrangements, where business groupings appear to have made pragmatic adjustments to what have been interpreted as an inevitable set of constitutional changes (Valler and Wood, 2004; Valler et al. , 2004).…”

Section: Croydon: Regime Politics At the Urban Edgementioning

confidence: 99%

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Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics

Phelps

Parsons

Ballas

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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The issue of the organization, role and influence of business interests in urban politics at the edge of major cities is one that is overdue for investigation. This article provides an initial and empirically oriented investigation of the organization, role and influence of business interests in edge urban politics in Europe. We present findings from five members of a European network of self-styled 'edge cities'. Following the now extensive debate in academic literature regarding the applicability of US concepts such as growth machines and urban regimes to the European setting, we draw attention to a diversity of business involvement in urban politics at the edge of Europe's capital cities. This diversity does include instances that, despite the very different 'macro-necessities' structuring edge urban politics in Europe, approximate to these concepts. Moreover, the diversity apparent in edge urban business politics raises several important questions for future research on urban governance. Namely, the complex connection between the local dependence of business and the organization of its interests; the 'jumping of scales' by locally dependent edge urban actors, and the sometimes neglected articulation of business interests with party political organization. Copyright (c) 2006 The Authors. Journal Compilation (c) 2006 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Section: A Note On Research Methodsmentioning

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Section: Croydon: Regime Politics At the Urban Edgementioning

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Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics

Phelps

Parsons

Ballas

et al. 2006

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Rising property prices mean that firms that lose subsidies face the prospect of trying to find affordable locations in increasingly expensive and restricted markets. These problems are compounded by SMEs' relatively limited political authority and lobbying power and the difficulty in mobilising and defining a clear 'business agenda' (see Valler et al 2004). Firms in particular manufacturing sectors or those specialising in bad neighbour activities, have often been relatively invisible actors, operating in the marginal spaces of cities.…”

Section: Smes and The Regeneration Of Contemporary Citiesmentioning

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Urban development, small business communities and the entrepreneurialisation of English local government

Raco¹,

Souza²

2018

Town Planning Review

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The paper draws on in-depth research on the impacts of urban regeneration programmes on small business communities in Haringey, London. It uses the Haringey case to document and describe the rolling-out of more entrepreneurial forms of delivery-based urban policy and planning. It explores the relationships between: austerity and local government finance; recent reforms to the planning system and the implementation of delivery-based, housing-focused urban regeneration programmes; and the types of urban built environments that are now emerging in cities. The discussion uses the example of small business communities to assess the impacts that contemporary planning interventions have on the form and character of urban economic development. It concludes by highlighting some of the broader implications for the planning of diverse cities and outlines future directions for research and analysis.

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“…While notions of 'local' or 'regional business interests' figure prominently as discursive forms, the material stakes that clearly underpin those interests in the US context are much harder to locate in the European one Valler et al, 2004;Wood, 2004).…”

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Comparative urban politics and the question of scale

Wood

2005

Space and Polity

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Critics of US theories of urban politics have drawn attention to the 'localist' nature of growth coalition and urban regime frameworks, arguing that they focus parochially on the urban scale and thereby neglect economic and political forces and processes of wider extent. Explicit attention to questions of scale raises the prospect of a more robust urban theory, capable of adapting to a range of different national contexts. However, these more recent arguments remain susceptible to a 'scalar trap' in which discussion pivots on the relative significance of different scales or 'levels' in determining the nature and form of urban politics. In their place, the paper argues for an alternative approach that encompasses a networked concept of scale.

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Business representation and the UK regions: mapping institutional change

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics

Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics

Urban development, small business communities and the entrepreneurialisation of English local government

Comparative urban politics and the question of scale

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