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

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  • Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
  • Mark Baker

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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’.

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  • Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat & Mark Baker, 2016. "Building consensus for network power? Some reflections on strategic spatial planning in the North West region of England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(5), pages 900-926, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:34:y:2016:i:5:p:900-926
    DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15614690
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