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A new framework for understanding subnational policy-making and local choice

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Peter Eckersley

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Abstract

This article presents a new and innovative framework to help analyse policy-making and depoliticisation within subnational governance arrangements. By focusing on the capacity (not the autonomy) of subnational governments to achieve their political objectives, and incorporating external actors along both the vertical and horizontal dimensions, it provides a dynamic tool to understand the extent to which municipal governments influence local policy-making processes. Furthermore, it stresses that greater ‘localism’ (or independence) between vertical tiers of government is likely to weaken subnational bodies and result in them becoming more interdependent with (or even dependent on) horizontal non-state actors within the locality. This would weaken their position in local governance arrangements and exacerbate the depoliticised nature of decision-making.

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Author(s): Eckersley P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Policy Studies

Year: 2017

Volume: 38

Issue: 1

Pages: 76-90

Online publication date: 23/05/2016

Acceptance date: 09/03/2016

Date deposited: 11/03/2016

ISSN (print): 0144-2872

ISSN (electronic): 1470-1006

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2016.1188910

DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2016.1188910

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