Building consensus for network power? Some reflections on strategic spatial planning in the North West region of England

• Autores: Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, Mark Baker
• Localización: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, ISSN-e 1472-3425, Vol. 34, Nº. 5, 2016, págs. 900-926
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This case study of collaborative regional spatial planning in the North West region of England seeks to understand if ‘network power’ provides a sufficient incentive for the politically stronger and institutionally established players (particularly local government) to adopt a more flexible approach to consensus building. An observed failure in this respect, due to the overwhelming strength of the parochial interests of local government under network governance, leads to a suggestion to incentivise greater collaboration and consensus building at the strategic level through what has been termed ‘meta-governed citizen power’