The Coming Regional Crisis (And How To Avoid It)

Lovering, John

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“…On one side are Phil Cooke and Kevin Morgan who are advocates of the development of a 'knowledge and innovation' driven economy, which is based on the lessons that Wales, and other lagging regions, can learn from the 'innovative regions' of Europe (Cooke, 2000;Cooke & Morgan, 2000;Morgan, 1997Morgan, , 1998Morgan, , 2000bMorgan, , 2001. In contrast, a more critical line of this approach is provided by John Lovering, who questions the adequacy (on both theoretical and policy levels) of such an approach and its relevance to Wales (Lovering, 1996(Lovering, , 1999a(Lovering, , 1999b(Lovering, , 2000b(Lovering, , 2001Boland & Lovering, 2000). This debate is very important within the context of Objective 1 in the sense that it reveals a clean fracture in terms of interpreting the Welsh economy and future economic strategy design.…”

Section: Interpreting Economic Development In Wales: the Design Of Wamentioning

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Wales and objective 1 status: learning the lessons or emulating the errors?

Boland

2004

European Planning Studies

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West Wales and the Valleys is approaching the mid-way point of its European funded Objective 1 programme-the highest form of Structural Fund aid for the Union's economically and socially 'lagging' regions. Objective 1 has afforded Wales the tools to develop an economic regeneration strategy aimed at improving the performance of the western part of the Welsh economy, and combating the country's entrenched pockets of economic and social disadvantage. However, after three years there are some important structural and implementation problems facing those managing Objective 1 in Wales, specifically in terms of the governance of the programme and resource allocation. This paper draws out these key issues by tracing the main fault lines in the design and delivery of the programme, and also offers some critical assessment of the initial economic impact of Objective 1. In short, this paper argues that Wales has shown little evidence of learning the lessons from other Objective 1 regions, but has been rather more adept at emulating the errors found elsewhere.

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Section: Interpreting Economic Development In Wales: the Design Of Wamentioning

confidence: 90%

Wales and objective 1 status: learning the lessons or emulating the errors?

Boland

2004

European Planning Studies

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“…In other words, the territorialisation of public policy, so as not to lead to an increase in territorial disparities, must go along with effective solidarity mechanisms, which remain national and sectoral prerogatives (Perrin and Malet, 2003). We are then in a position to question the dominant logic that goes with thinking about the territorialisation of public policy: it could well be that of inter-territorial competitiveness which seems to be promoted by many regional economists (Lovering, 2001). Understood in this way, territorialised public policy gives precedence not to social demands on its territory but to its international economic insertion, to support for the most competitive production on international markets and its specialisation in line with its comparative advantages.…”

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Charting and theorising the territorialisation of agricultural policy

Trouve¹,

Berriet-Solliec²,

Déprés³

2007

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Of singular importance here is the macroeconomic environment, over which the central state still has some influence, and which affects the relative power of capital and labor, and the capacity for microeconomic strategies to be more than zero-sum. 36 Gough and Eisenschitz, for instance, have argued that the willingness of business interests to negotiate and enter into associative arrangements at the sub-national and local scales is dependent on the maintenance of a neoliberal framework at the national level. Should local efforts come to challenge this national framework, and risk spilling over into an extensive politicization of the economy, business is likely to pull out from more cooperative arrangements.…”

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The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism

Graefe

2005

Theor Soc

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Times have arguably never been better for minority nationalism. The hollowing out of the nation-state has provided spaces for minority nations to assert their identities and seek wider forms of self-rule. Their position is strengthened by the increased salience of development strategies at the regional scale that draw on the cooperation and coordination of economic actors. In this context, minority nationalism can help foster regional economic success by providing increased cohesion and crossclass collaboration. In return, regional economic success promises to strengthen the nation by providing resources to smooth over class divisions. This article lays out this argument, but raises a number of political and economic contradictions that threaten to interfere both with the construction of regional strategies, and with their ability to paper over class divisions within the nation. It concludes with a brief discussion of the Québec case to show how the promise of a mutually reinforcing relationship between minority nationalism and regional strategies runs up against a series of contradictions in practice.Times have seemingly never been better for minority nationalisms. With the purported hollowing out of the national state, and the transfer of its power upwards, downwards, and outwards, these nationalist movements seem strategically placed to make significant gains. If highend economic development is increasingly based on intangible inputs such as trust, tacit knowledge, cooperation, learning and social capital, and if regions are much more suitable containers for developing these inputs than are nation-states, 1 regionally-concentrated nationalities find themselves with new tools to contest their positions in their host states.Regional economic strategies and minority nationalisms are in a seemingly symbiotic relationship. The success of regional strategies allows minority nations to undertake autonomous development and to deepen the institutionalization of their economic spaces. This should provide a stronger base to develop their national community and identity. Success

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The Coming Regional Crisis (And How To Avoid It)

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Wales and objective 1 status: learning the lessons or emulating the errors?

Wales and objective 1 status: learning the lessons or emulating the errors?

Charting and theorising the territorialisation of agricultural policy

The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism

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