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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(1):13-34; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn025
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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]

The state and uneven development: the governance of economic development in England in the post-devolution UK

Andy Pike and John Tomaney

Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK. andy.pike{at}newcastle.ac.uk, john.tomaney{at}newcastle.ac.uk


  Abstract

This paper draws upon territorial and relational approaches as well as work on the economics and politics of devolution to argue that a geographically sensitive political economy of the ‘qualitative state’ can interpret the roles, structures, strategies and practices of states in attempting to resolve the governance of uneven development. An empirical analysis of the UK state's governance of economic development within England reveals the construction of enabling frameworks at the national level and, in the wake of regionalization and regionalism, the encouragement of new ‘spatial imaginaries’ (cities and/or city-regions, localisms and pan-regionalisms). The result has been complexity, experimentation, fragmentation and incoherence with largely negative implications for territorial equity and justice. We conclude by reflecting upon the limits of projects of state decentralization and spatial policy under a strong national economic growth orientation in addressing the governance of uneven development.

Keywords: sub-national, governance, economic development, England, devolution

Received on June 19, 2008. Accepted on November 21, 2008.

JEL Classifications: R5, R58


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