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Local governance and local business interests: a critical review

Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Andrew Wood

Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Peter North

School for Urban Development and Policy, South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, UK

Since 1980 the dominance of elected municipal government in Britain has given way to a broader local governance. While the precise configuration of this change has been debated in detail, approaches to the processes of restructuring and the operation and relative efficacy of new arrangements remain empirically limited and theoretically underdeveloped. We explore the usefulness of a range of contemporary theoretical accounts including regulationist approaches in responding to these lacunae. In developing our analysis we argue first that explaining the restructuring of local governance requires (amongst a range of developments) further theoretical and empirical work on local business interest representation; and, secondly, that attempts to move beyond partial evaluations of the new local governance must be predicated upon appropriate and rigorous theoretical foundations.

Key Words: Britain • business interests • concrete research • local economic development • local governance • regulation theory

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 24, No. 3, 409-428 (2000)
DOI: 10.1191/030913200701540492


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