Shannon Bruyneel
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Progress in Human Geography 2010
- Looks at multilevel nature of governance and who gets what, and who gets to decide. Documents how new geographies of governance have dispersed functions of the state and consideres what is the role of the state now.
- Concludes that politics of scale determine who gets involved in what and under what circumstances also focuses on distributional outcomes within layers of as well as accross layers. Comes to note that although role of state has changed it has not necessariy diminished. It is now more about collaboration with non state actors. Border between nations, and other juristictions can at times act as barriers to meaningful non government activity. The state needs to operate in an environment where it can scale up on multi-level, scale down to local level and scale out to incorporate other actors.
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