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Article
Territorial Governance in Flux: A Case of the City-Regions in England
Author(s)
Tamás Kaiser
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2018.02.003
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National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
ABSTRACT
Answers to challenges in a changing environment
highlight the need to work with a more flexible sense of geography, developing
institutional reforms in delivering public services. The emerging city regions
in England can be regarded as a prime test of what the need for optimal
territorial scope and enhanced coordination needs. The aim of this paper is to examine the emerging new forms of
territorial governance in the light of the “piecemeal” approach of reforms launched by the post-2010 Conservative Liberal Government. We argue that the creation
of city-regions is an organic part of the new territorial paradigm; an important element of which is an integrated and functional approach
that intersects public administrative borders. Since 2010, the uniformed
regional model has been replaced by primarily ad hoc, informal, and flexible approaches. The successive governments placed the bigger
cities and its hinterland at the centre of English devolution, but wished to
implement them in varying forms of “deal-making” as a means of decentralization, encouraging
solutions tailored to local requirements and opportunities, and retaining the fundamental characteristics of the “asymmetrical devolution”. However, in terms of regional governance, the
relationship between the new and old regional configurations has seen the
creation of a much-debated, malleable framework which, during the process of
Brexit could generate new, further interpretations, narratives, and practical solutions.
KEYWORDS
English devolution, city-region, devolution deal, metro-mayor, territorial governance
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