Empowering New Regional Political Institutions: A Norwegian Case

Amdam, Roar

doi:10.1080/14649350120068786

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“…Secondly, the national economy has developed very favourably due, in particular, to the exploitation of the country’s natural resources. These two factors have laid the foundations for a national policy that has targeted maintaining ‘the fundamental features of the existing settlement pattern and to ensure equality in living conditions in all parts of the country’ (Amdan, 2001: 172). In the first years of the new millennium, there were some references to competitiveness concerns with respect to regional policy, arguing that regional policy should also be geared towards promoting Norway’s international competitiveness (Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, 2005).…”

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Rescaling and urban-regional restructuring in Finland and in the Helsinki region

Pelkonen

2013

European Urban and Regional Studies

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While Finland has traditionally been a country where major political forces have put important emphasis on balancing the regional structure and supporting the peripheral regions, development since the 1990s has been characterised by growing regional differences and increasing dominance of centralising tendencies. In the first decade of the new millennium, these tendencies have further intensified. This article analyses the processes, dynamics and underlying rationalities of this state restructuring and state spatial transformation in Finland and in the Helsinki region, the capital area of the country. The developments in Finland are placed in broader international context as they are analysed in relation to recent debates on state rescaling. The validity of some of the core arguments presented in these debates is examined in the Finnish context. The case of the Helsinki region and Finland is also set into a Nordic perspective by presenting a comparison of rescaling tendencies in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark and Norway). The findings are mixed, as there are both elements supporting the rescaling thesis and clear deviations from the core arguments.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Rescaling and urban-regional restructuring in Finland and in the Helsinki region

Pelkonen

2013

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…Dette er ofte ikke klart i bruken av Habermas' diskursetikk, men det har betydning når man -som f.eks. Amdam & Amdam (2001) -forsøker å omsette hans diskursetikk til praksis, organisatorisk og innholdsmessig. Bordum (2001:287-88) Nettopp for ikke å redusere disse spørsmål til f.eks.…”

Section: Deliberativ Planleggingunclassified

“…Følgende modell oppsummerer noen av de sentrale argumenter for, hvorfor det ifølge norsk planforskning er meningsfullt å ta utgangspunkt i Habermas teori om kommunikativ handling. Amdam & Amdam (2001) fremhever som nevnt at kommunikativ planlegging er en saerlig velegnet måte til å (1) nå et moraldannende fellesskap, (2) å integrere og sammenveve kollektive og individuelle interesser, verdier og behov, samt (3) gir mulighet for å etablere maktlikevekt og begrunnelsestvang. Roar Amdam, en av de mest skrivende planleggingsanalytiker her i landet, er som vist sterkt inspirert av teorien om kommunikativ handling, og han illustrerer i en artikkel (Amdam 1998) hvordan man kan se denne form for planlegging som en støtte for politiske prosesser.…”

Section: Neo-pragmatismen I Norsk Planleggingunclassified