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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(1):51-66; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn024
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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]

Territorial policy communities and devolution in the UK

Michael Keatinga, Paul Cairneyb and Eve Hepburnc

a Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana via dei Roccettini 9, Florence I-50014, Italy. michael.keating{at}eui.eu
b School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen, F56 Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, UK. paul.cairney{at}abdn.ac.uk
c Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh, 21 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK. eve.hepburn{at}ed.ac.uk


  Abstract

Devolution in the UK forms part of a wider process of spatial rescaling across Europe. Little work has been done on its effect on interest articulation. The literature on policy communities treats them as sectoral in scope. We propose the concept of ‘territorial policy communities’ to designate territorially bounded constellations of actors within and across policy sectors, emerging in response to the rescaling of government. Devolution may leave existing systems of interest articulation unchanged, leaving ‘regions without regionalism’; it may confine some groups within territorial boundaries while allowing others the freedom to choose’ between levels of government; or it might promote a general territorialization of interest representation and the emergence of territorial policy communities. The UK's four models of devolution help test the effects of stronger and weaker forms of devolution on the territorialization of groups.

Keywords: devolution, UK, policy, interests

Received on May 29, 2008. Accepted on November 21, 2008.

JEL Classifications: R7, R50


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