... from the department favoured the elimination of the RDAs rather than assemblies on the grounds that: Sarah Ayres can be contacted at: sarah.ayres@bristol.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Regional development Economic development Community relations Governance Partnership...

... be contacted at: alan.harding@manchester.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Regional development Politics Devolution England The sense of uncertainty about national spatial development priorities is further compounded if we look at what Government does, or plans to do, rather...

... in England. Graham Pearce can be contacted at: g.r.a.pearce@aston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Decentralized control Regional development Governance Management strategy England how economic growth can best be delivered having regard to employment and the key...

... 2009 Cluster analysis European Union Economic growth Regional development Urban regions The significance of clusters and cluster strategies for regional development has been explored in a variety of contexts (Porter, 1998 ; Martin and Sunley, 2001 ; Steiner, 1998 ; Benneworth...

... ambitions and “visions” in local public administration after the end of communist‐era top‐down government. Mariusz Czepczyński can be contacted at: geomc@univ.gda.pl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Agglomeration Poland European Union Regional development Business enterprise...

..., in practice, tendencies of centralisation have become more dominant during the last two decades (e.g. Wolsink, 2003). Economic development Regional development Strategic planning Partnership The Netherlands © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Willem Salet can be contacted...

...‐regional linkages after the abolition of the Metropolitan county councils in 1968 had left a vacuum with no political forum for deciding priorities, so the Northern Way brought together eight cities and three Regional Development Agencies (North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humberside) to work...

... urgent and much needed focus to the future strategic direction of devolvement and governance (AGMA, 2007) Critically, it considers that new governance arrangements must display a number of characteristics: At the regional level, the UK (England) has regional development agencies and regional...

... for growth in the USA in the next half century. Petra Todorovich can be contacted at: petra@rpa.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Transportation Resources Economic growth United States of America Regional development National economy Unlike most industrialized nations...

... a comprehensive overarching analysis in a complex field of territorial public policy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Governance Partnership Devolution Regional development Local government England Commentators reviewing the legacy of the Blair era invariably list devolution...

... not had the same learning experience or the structured assistance in order to create the base in the 1980s which would allow the kind of rapid development and success experienced by Dublin. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Ireland Regional development Scotland Tourism This paper has its origins...