Theory Led by Policy: The Inadequacies of the ‘New Regionalism’ (Illustrated from the Case of Wales)

Lovering, John

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“…This in turns links with Lovering's comments on the dangers inherent within such approaches of diverting public resources to supporting a special set of interests (Lovering, 2001) and the need to deflate the new regionalism "hegemony" in part through a more "genuinely pluralistic approach to strategy formation" (Lovering, 1999). Echoing Markusen (1996) we can say that regionally-based clusters and hence polices are slippery concepts in slippery spaces.…”

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confidence: 83%

Industrial Policy, FDI and Employment: Still ‘Missing a Strategy’

Bailey

Driffield

2006

J Ind Compet Trade

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1 The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the ESRC under award number RES-000-22-0468.Aston Academy for Research in Management is the administrative centre for all research activities at Aston Business School. The School comprises more than 70 academic staff organised into thematic research groups along with a Doctoral Programme of more than 50 research students. Research is carried out in all of the major areas of business studies and a number of specialist fields. For further information contact:The 2 AbstractThis paper contrasts the effects of trade, inward FDI and technological development upon the demand for skilled and unskilled workers in the UK. By focussing on industry level data panel data on smaller firms, the paper also contrasts these effects with those generated by large scale domestic investment. The analysis is placed within the broader context of shifts in British industrial policy, which has seen significant shifts from sectoral to horizontal measures and towards stressing the importance of SMEs, clusters and new technology, all delivered at the regional scale. This, however, is contrasted with continued elements of British and EU regional policy which have emphasised the attraction of inward investment in order to alleviate regional unemployment. The results suggest that such policies are not naturally compatible; that while both trade and FDI benefit skilled workers, they have adverse effects on the demand for unskilled labour in the UK. At the very least this suggests the need for a range of policies to tackle various targets (including in this case unemployment and social inclusion) and the need to integrate these into a coherent industrial strategy at various levels of governance, whether regional and/or national.

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Industrial Policy, FDI and Employment: Still ‘Missing a Strategy’

Bailey

Driffield

2006

J Ind Compet Trade

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“…Opinion on the potential for these new state spaces to deliver economic growth is divided. Whereas Amin (1999, page 366) is optimistic about the potential created by new institutional forms to construct``bottom-up, regionspecific, longer-term, and plural actor-based policy actions'', this perspective has been criticised by Lovering (1999) as overstated and undertheorised.…”

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Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Gibbs

Jonas

2001

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions will bring about an important change in UK regional governance. A key area of contention and struggle is likely to occur over the contribution of the RDAs to sustainable development. Although the pursuit of sustainable development is a stated goal of the RDAs, in this paper we argue that this goal is likely to be compromised by tensions and contradictions emerging in the evolving new governance landscape of England. In terms of promoting sustainable-development policy, the regional scale of the UK state is becoming materially and discursively significant, and a particular focus of struggles around economic and environmental issues. These struggles strategically intersect with wider processes of reregulation and rescaling in the UK state. We not only consider the practical policy implications of integrating the economy and environment at the regional scale, but also analyse emerging tensions in regional governance in the light of processes of social reregulation and rescaling within the UK state. We argue that theoretical approaches to the latter need to incorporate the uneven process of rescaling and the contingent nature of regional state forms and institutions.

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“…Conceptualizing the nature of space and defining regions have long been regarded as fundamental research issues for geographers*indeed, part of the very raison d'être of the discipline, what Lovering (1999) refers to as economic geography's 'supposedly foundational concept'. A recurring central theme in economic geography is concerned with explaining 'uneven geographical development', and this has necessarily entailed discussions of the nature of geographical space and of regions.…”

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Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

Garretsen¹,

Martin

2010

Spatial Economic Analysis

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Two aspects of New Economic Geography models are often singled out for criticism, especially by geographers: the treatment of geography, typically as a pre-given, fixed and highly idealized abstract geometric space; and the treatment of history, typically as 'logical' time (the movement to equilibrium in a model's solution space) rather than real history. In this paper we examine the basis for these criticisms, and explore how far and in what ways NEG models might be made more credible with respect to their representation of geography and history, and particularly whether and to what extent the work of geographers themselves provides some insights in this regard. We argue that the conceptualization of space and time is in fact a challenge for both NEG theorists and economic geographers, and that, notwithstanding their ontological and epistemological differences, both groups would benefit from an interchange of ideas on this front.Réinventer les (nouveaux) modèles de géographie économique: comment prendre la géographie et l'histoire plus au sérieux RÉSUMÉ Deux aspects particuliers des mode`les de la nouvelle ge´ographie e´conomique sont souvent l'objet de critiques, notamment de la part des ge´ographes, a`savoir: le traitement de la ge´ographie, ge´ne´ralement comme un espace ge´ome´trique abstrait pre´de´termine´, fixe et extrêmement ide´alise´, et le traitement de l'histoire, ge´ne´ralement comme un cre´neau 'logique' (un mouvement vers l'e´quilibre dans un espace a`solution du modèle) et non pas comme l'histoire re´elle. Dans la pre´sente communication, nous nous penchons sur le fondement de ces critiques, et nous examinons dans quelle mesure les modèles de la NEG pourraient devenir plus plausibles sur le plan de la façon dont ils repre´sentent la ge´ographie et l'histoire, notamment si le travail des ge´ographes apporte de nouveaux e´le´ments sur cette question, et dans quelle mesure. Nous soutenons que la conceptualisation de l'espace et du temps constitue, en fait, un de´fi tant pour les the´oriciens de la NEG que pour les ge´ographes e´conomiques, et qu'au-delà de leurs diffe´rences ontologiques et e´piste´mologiques, un e´change d'ide´es sur ce sujet serait be´ne´fique pour ces deux groupes. Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2010Reconsideració n de modelos de (Nueva) Geografía Econó mica: Tomando más en serio la geografía y la historia EXTRACTO A menudo, existen dos aspectos particulares de los modelos de Nueva Geografía Econo´mica que reciben críticas, especialmente por parte de los geo´grafos: el tratamiento de la geografía, típicamente como un espacio geome´trico abstracto altamente idealizado, fijo y predeterminado; y, el tratamiento de la historia, típicamente como un tiempo 'lo´gico' (el movimiento hacia el equilibrio en el espacio de solucio´n de un modelo), en lugar de como historia real. En este estudio examinamos la base de estas críticas y exploramos hasta que´punto y de que´formas, los modelos NEG podrían hacerse ma´s creíbles con respecto a su representacio´n de la geogr...

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Theory Led by Policy: The Inadequacies of the ‘New Regionalism’ (Illustrated from the Case of Wales)

Cited by 531 publications

References 37 publications

Industrial Policy, FDI and Employment: Still ‘Missing a Strategy’

Industrial Policy, FDI and Employment: Still ‘Missing a Strategy’

Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously

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