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Analysing regional development and policy: a structural-realist approach
Analyse der Regionalentwicklung und Politik: ein strukturell-realistischer Ansatz
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Abstract This paper overviews the models analysing regional development. It evaluates their analytical and policy relevance, and recommends for a structural-realist approach to spatial development analysis. Section 2 overviews Territorial Innovation Models that theorise local and regional development from a... view more
This paper overviews the models analysing regional development. It evaluates their analytical and policy relevance, and recommends for a structural-realist approach to spatial development analysis. Section 2 overviews Territorial Innovation Models that theorise local and regional development from a New Regionalism point of view, and explains why they fall short of 'realist' regional development analysis. Section 3 pleas for return to 'old' institutionalist and structuralist traditions ad-rem to distinguishing the analytical from the strategy and policy perspectives. Section 4 makes methodological recommendations, on contemporary spatial development analysis, with cognisance of structural-institutional, scalar and cultural dimensions of development processes and strategies.... view less
Keywords
path dependence; social structure
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
Territorial Innovation Models; New Regionalism; regional development; path dependency; social structure; institutions and culture; Structural realism; Territoriale Innovationsmodelle; Neuer Regionalismus; Regionalentwicklung; Institutionen und Kultur; Struktureller Realismus
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 103-118
Journal
Regional Studies, 44 (2010) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802251478
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)