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Treating the Symptoms, Not the Causes: What's Wrong with Demos's Report The Human Handbrake: How Whitehall Culture Holds Back Public Service Reform

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract A litany of think tank reports has critiqued Whitehall's ability to deliver policy. The latest—by Demos—locates the roots of Britain's governance woes in Whitehall's political culture. Drawing on public policy literature, we critique this report by demonstrating that Whitehall's political culture reflects the enduring structural design of ...
DARCY LUKE, NATHAN CRITCH
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Multilevel polycentric governance in urban development policies - national urban policy structure in Slovakia [PDF]

, 2021
Maroš Finka, Milan Husár
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Economic Debate On Spatial Functional Linkages And Its Application to Key Spatial Development Challanges In Poland [PDF]

This article presents a synthesis of today's world economic knowledge and the results of the analyses concerning: a) the nature of spatial functional linkages, including network structures, b) diversity of approaches concerning the application of spatial
Jacek Zaucha
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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

Exploration of Green and Low-Carbon Development Pathway for Park City: Based on Chengdu’s Practice in Spatial, Industrial, Transportation and Energy Structure Adjustments

Fengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveAgainst the escalating global climate crisis and intensifying resource constraints, this research aims to elucidate the theoretical framework and practical pathways for achieving green and low-carbon development within the context of Chengdu’s ...
Xiao YANG, Guo LI, Xin LIU, Zhuyun XIAO
doaj   +1 more source

Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]

Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity
Evert Meijers, Krister Sandberg
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State and local governance in Solomon Islands: building on existing strengths [PDF]

, 2015
In dealing with the question of a future system for governance in Solomon Islands, two options have been put on the table: patch up the existing system or convert the existing provinces into states under a federal system.
Scales, Ian
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Enforcing the climate change act [PDF]

, 2015
This paper examines the enforceability of the duties in the Climate Change Act 2008 which require the UK’s GHG emissions to be reduced over time. Section B highlights how the Act’s other provisions must be interpreted so as to give proper support to ...
Church, Jonathan
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source