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Privatization Comes to Town: National Policies and Local Responses - The Bristol Case

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HOARE A. (1997) Privatization comes to town: national policies and local reponses - the Bristol case, Reg. Studies 31, 253-265. National policies produce unforeseen local outcomes. The paper considers the geographical consequences of one major national policy programme - privatization, mostly though not entirely at the sub-national (local) scale. Drawing primarily on the UK literature and experience, it establishes the general form of, and motives behind, privatization as a national political initiative before considering how it can produce geographically salient outcomes. The example of Bristol reveals something of the interplay of these national processes in the city-region context and how that context itself is far from neutral, but adds a further suite of impulses to the melting pot of local economic change. HOARE A. (1997) La privatisation arrive: les politiques nationales et les reponses locales - le cas d'etude de Bristol, Reg. Studies 31, 253-265 Il resulte des politiques nationales des consequences locales imprevues. Cet article examine, dans une large mesure a l'echelle locale, les retombees geographiques d'une politique nationale majeure, a savoir le programme de privatisation. En puisant largement dans la documentation et l'experience au Royaume-Uni, il esquisse les grandes lignes et la raison d'etre de la privatisation en tant qu'un projet politique d'envergure nationale avant de considerer comment on peut fournir des retombees geographiques saillantes. Le cas d'etude de Bristol laisse voir assez bien l'interaction de ces processus nationaux dans le contexte ville-region et dans quelle mesure ce contexte est loin d'etre neutre, plutot il ajoute davantage d'impulsions au creuset de l'evolution ecomique locale. HOARE A. (1997) Privatisierung erreicht die Stadt: Politik der Landesregierung und o¨rtliche Reaktionen: der Fall Bristol, Reg Studies 31, 253-265. Die Regierungspolitik eines Landes kann unerwartete Reaktionen am Orte zur Folge haben. Dieser Aufsatz bescha¨ftigt sich mit den geographischen Folgeerscheinungen eines Hauptprogramms der gegenwa¨rtigen britischen Regierungspolitik: Privatisierung, grosstenteils, doch nicht ausschliesslich, auf regionaler (o¨rtlicher) Ebene. Auf der Grundlage vorwiegend britischer Literatur und Erfahrungen werden die allgemeine Form der Privatisierung sowie die ihr zu grunde liegenden Motive als politische Initiative des Staates festgehalten, bevor untersucht wird, wie sie geographisch ins Auge fallende Ergebnisse hervorbringen kann. Das Beispiel Bristol zeigt einige der Wechselwirkungen der staatlichen Vorga¨nge im Zusammenhang einer Stadtregion auf, und wie dieser Zusammenhang selbst bei weitem keine neutrale Rolle spielt, sondern dem Schmelztiegel o¨rtlichen wirtschaftlichen Wandels eine weitere Folge von Impulsen zufu¨gt.

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  • Anthony Hoare, 1997. "Privatization Comes to Town: National Policies and Local Responses - The Bristol Case," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(3), pages 253-265.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:31:y:1997:i:3:p:253-265
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409750134674
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