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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(1):107-121; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn029
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This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Rescaling The State [View the issue table of contents]

‘Rescaling the state’ in question

Kevin R. Cox

Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1361, USA. cox.13{at}osu.edu


  Abstract

This paper puts in critical focus a major tenet of the state rescaling literature. This is that over the last 25 years or so there has been a significant decentralization of state functions, largely with a view to re-energizing national economies. Several points are at issue. The first is that the evidence for a decentralization of any significance is insubstantial. Second, the territorial structure of the state has indeed been in question but largely as a result of bottom-up forces contesting it, in part, on distributional grounds. And third, the American case underlines both the Eurocentric character of this literature and the weakness of whatever decentralization has indeed occurred.

Keywords: globalization, geographically uneven development, political parties, glocalization, territorial exploitation

Received on October 27, 2008. Accepted on December 8, 2008.

JEL Classifications: 02, P1, R1


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