Abstract
Political devolution in the UK has afforded opportunities for studying policy differences and similarities in relation to local-level community-based planning initiatives in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Organised around the concepts of 'lesson-drawing' and the 'filling in' of local governance, this paper critically considers aspects of policy design and development associated with community-based planning within and between the devolved UK polities. In practice, policy instruments vary with respect to their institutional, scalar and organisational rationalities. A policy mobility perspective may enable a relatively more critical understanding of how local governance arrangements are being externally and internally shaped in the respective devolved nation-regions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6-15 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Geographical Journal |
| Volume | 181 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- 'filling in'
- Devolution
- Lesson drawing
- Policy mobilities
- UK
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Geography, Planning and Development