Morphet, J;
Clifford, BP;
(2015)
Policy convergence, divergence and communities: The case of spatial planning in post-devolution Britain and Ireland.
Planning Practice and Research
, 30
(1)
, Article 976998. 10.1080/02697459.2014.976998.
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Abstract
The implementation of devolution (1999) in the UK was assumed by to lead to fractured relationships with the national centre and a fragmented state as a consequence. However, discourse analysis and policy reviews in spatial planning demonstrate that policies and legislation implemented by central and devolved governments since devolution demonstrate marked similarities in intention and type (albeit with some differences in name and delivery route). Having demonstrated a lack of the expected policy divergence, we explore the role of two civil service forums, the British-Irish Council’s Spatial Planning workstream and the ‘Five Administrations’ meetings of Chief Planners as policy communities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Policy convergence, divergence and communities: The case of spatial planning in post-devolution Britain and Ireland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02697459.2014.976998 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2014.976998 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | planning; devolution; British-Irish Council; policy community |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1452711 |
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