Governance, Institutional Change and Regional Development

by Mike Danson (Editor), Henrick Halkier (Editor), Greta Cameron (Editor)

Overview

The increasingly ambiguous term regional is here used in its sub- national meaning by the contributing European scholars. They highlight the prominent role given to building institutions and institutional change in regional development within the (supra-national region) European Union towards the end of the last millennium. They particularly address how the ongoing process of institution building affects the way regions and localities are governed, and the consequences of new modes of governance and institutional change for regional development strategies and policies. They complement and extend the 1998 . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351793285
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2018
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Danson, Mike; Halkier, Henrick; Cameron, Greta

Table of Contents

	Tables	viii
	Figures	ix
	Contributors	x
Part I	Introduction	1
1	Regional Governance, Institutional Change and Regional Development	1
Part II	Partnership and Regional Development	8
2	The European Partnership Model and the Changing Role of Regional Development Agencies: A Regional Development and Organisation Perspective	11
3	Developing a Culture of Collaboration: Concepts and Experiences in a Regional Context	37
4	Local Development Networks in England	57
Part III	Networking and Regional Governance	89
5	Development Bodies, Networking and Business Promotion: The Case of North Jutland, Denmark	92
6	Cohesion Policy and the Role of RDAs in the Making of an Intelligent Region: Lessons from the Southern European Periphery	115
7	Regional Government in the United Kingdom: Democratic Representation or Economic Success?	138
8	Persuasive Storytelling about the Reform Process: The Case of the West Sweden Region	172
Part IV	Regional Development and Multi-Level Governance	195
9	Towards the End of a Norwegian Regional Policy Model?	198
10	The Regionalisation of Danish Regional Policy: Governance and Resource Dependencies in Transition	221
11	EU and National Regional Policies in Austria	246
Part V	Perspective	266
12	Institutional Change, Governance and Regional Development: Problems and Perspectives	266
	Index	276