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Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as First Minister and leader of the SNP has thrown Scottish politics into flux. But beneath the superficial media coverage and frenetic party politics that followed her resignation, the fundamentals of the constitutional debate remain unaltered. One of these fundamentals, the extent to which Scotland is better or worse off being part of the UK political economy, is rarely debated in the depth it deserves. The parlous state of the UK economy and, in particular, the deeply entrenched territorial inequality that results from its extreme core‐periphery structure that safeguards the economic dominance of London and South East England, holds the potential for a surprise shift in the debate over independence to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collected data from four urban neighborhoods to explore whether citizen participation in urban governance was fostered by civic culture and local political institutions. Although citizen participation was least likely to occur in poor neighborhoods demonstrating lower educational attainment levels, such factors could be mitigated by political mobilization and approaches to urban governance adopted by local institutions (including citizen participation). (SM)

DOCHERTY I., GULLIVER S. and DRAKE P. (2004) Exploring the potential benefits of city collaboration, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. As they emerge from extended periods of economic restructuring, many large cities are searching for innovative, more effective ways to achieve and maintain competitive advantage in the international economy. Strategic collaboration, although in the early stages of development, might offer a means for nearby cities to enhance their competitiveness and improve their position in regional and global hierarchies. This paper sets out a range of potential answers to the question 'why collaborate?' by exploring the likely benefits to be gained from such collaboration, and suggests possible ways in which the collaborative process between cities could be established and sustained. City collaboration Global economy Competitiveness Urban hierarchy DOCHERTY I., GULLIVER S. et DRAKE P. (2004) Un examen des avantages potentiels de la collaboration interville, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. A la suite des periodes de restructuration economique prolongees, beaucoup des grandes villes sont a la recherche de facons plus innovatrices et plus efficaces de reussir et de maintenir leur competitivite dans l'economie internationale. Bien qu'elle soit dans ses premieres phases, la collaboration strategique pourrait fournir un moyen par lequel les grandes villes augmentent leur competitivite et ameliorent leur place dans les hierarchies regionale et mondiale. Tout en examinant les avantages potentiels a decouler d'une telle collaboration, cet article cherche a presenter toute une serie de reponses potentielles a la question suivante: collaborer, pour quoi faire? En outre, l'article suggere des facons qui puissent assurer la mise en train et faire le suivi du processus de collaboration interville. Collaboration interville Economie mondiale Competitivite Hierarchie urbaine DOCHERTY I., GULLIVER S. und DRAKE P. (2004) Untersuchung der potentiellen Vorteile stadtischer Zusammenarbeit, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. Gegen Abschluss ausgedehnter wirtschaftlicher Umstrukturierung suchen viele Grossstadte nach innovativen wirksamen Wegen, Wettbewerbsvorteile in der internationalen Wirtschaft zu erzielen und zu behaupten. Strategische Zusammenarbeit konnte sich fur benachbarte Stadte selbst im Anfangsstadium der Entwicklung als Mittel zurVerbesserung ihrer Wettbewerbsfahigkeit erweisen, und ihrer Stellung in regionalen und globalen Rangordnungen verbessern. Dieser Aufsatz fuhrt eine Reihe potentieller Antworten auf die Frage 'Warum Zusammenarbeit?' auf, indem er die zu erwartenden Vorteile untersucht, die sich aus derartiger Zusammenarbeit ergeben, und schlagt mogliche Wege zur Aufnahme und Aufrechterhaltung von Zusammenarbeit vor. Zusammenarbeit von Stadten Globale Wirtschaft Wettbewerbsfahigkeit Stadtische Rangordnung DOCHERTY I., GULLIVER S. y DRAKE P. (2004) Un examen de los posibles beneficios que se derivan de la colaboracion entre ciudades, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. A medida que emergen de prolongados periodos de reestructuracion economica, muchas de las grandes ciudades andan en la busqueda de formas mas efectivas e innovadoras de conseguir y manterner una ventaja competitiva en la economia internacional. Una colaboracion estrategica, aunque sea en los estados iniciales de desarrollo, puede ofrecer a las ciudades cercanas entre si una forma de aumentar su competitividad y mejorar su posicion en jerarquias regionales y globales. Este articulo presenta una variedad de posibles respuestas a la pregunta '?Para que colaborar?' explorando los posibles beneficios que se pueden obtener de tal colaboracion, y sugiere posibles formas mediante las cuales el proceso de colaboracion entre ciudades se podria establecer y sostener. Colaboracion entre ciudades Economia global Competitividad Jerarquia urbana JEL classifications: O21, R12, R58

The concept of 'inclusive growth' (IG) is discussed in a political economy framework. The article reports comparative analysis of economic and planning policy documents from Scotland, England and the UK and findings from expert workshops held in Scotland, which identify four key policy areas for 'inclusive growth': skills, transport and housing for young people; city-regional governance; childcare; and place-making. These policies share with the 'Foundational Economy' an emphasis on everyday infrastructure and services, but add an emphasis on inter-generational justice and stress the importance of community empowerment as much as re-municipalisation. Factors enabling IG policy development include: the necessary political powers; a unifying political discourse and civic institutions; and inclusive governance and participatory democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a composite paper bringing together six personal reflections on being supervised as doctoral students by Ronan Paddison. It contributes insightful and poignant voices of experience to a special issue commemorating the academic contributions – here with wider implications beyond the immediately 'academic' – of Ronan Paddison (1945–2019), the founder and for many years Editor-in-Chief of this journal, Space and Polity. The six sets of reflections have been authored independently of one another, but their cumulative effect is to demonstrate the depth of 'hidden' academic (and related) contribution made by Ronan to nurturing early career academics formally (through the doctoral supervision process) and more informally (in numerous ways and sometimes continuing well beyond the submission and award of a thesis). (Editorial abstract) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Real estate development is an intensely social process dependent on rich networks of relations between public and private sector actors. Previous work has explored how far such relations are formalised in large cities through shared coalitions of interest intended to promote urban growth. Relatively little attention has been given to networks in smaller cities, which is the concern of this paper. Drawing on detailed research in a small Scottish city, the paper explores how its local network was characterised by strong reliance on network construction and reproduction through trust and reputation. Significantly, within such local networks, competition and collaboration can exist side by side, without subsuming normal tensions into consistent agendas or formally defined 'partnerships'. Controlling land for urban expansion provides a particular focus for these tensions, since it can allow certain interests to gain network dominance. These findings raise important concerns around whether small cities should rely on informal networks to promote growth instead of constructing formal coalitions that may attract more externally based actors. Such choices have profound implications for the capacity and transparency of development networks, and thus for the accountability of the urban development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reducing carbon emissions from the transport sector has become a critical imperative for public policy as our understanding of the impacts of the mobility system on the environment has developed. This paper contrasts policy development in three cities (Aberdeen, Bremen and Malmö) that collaborated as part of a European Union knowledge exchange programme designed to share innovative approaches to carbon reduction in the transport sector. We identify a number of critical aspects of governance, including the approach to policy formulation and implementation, and the status of consensus and cohesion, as key determinants of transport outcomes. We conclude that the degree of institutional alignment evident in each city’s governance network is crucial in explaining their appetite for the pursuit of low carbon policies, and in turn the real potential for policy transfer to occur as envisaged by European Union collaboration frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to suggest new avenues for trust research by critiquing the extant literature on this topic. We analyse the most influential research on intraorganizational trust from the perspective of a classic industrial sociology framework from the 1970s – Alan Fox’s work on frames of reference and trust dynamics. Our analysis of intraorganizational trust studies leads us to three conclusions. First, the large majority of intraorganizational trust research has strong unitarist underpinnings, which support a managerial agenda that is potentially detrimental to employees’ (and indeed managers’) long-term interests. Second, most of this research fails to explain how trust in organizations is embedded in societal and field-level institutions, hence it would benefit from looking ‘beyond the factory gates’ for a more complete understanding of trust dynamics in organizations. In this connection, we argue that Fox’s pluralist and radical perspectives, which are under-represented in intraorganizational trust research, could provide new lines of inquiry by locating internal trust relations in a wider institutional context. Third, Fox’s explanation of how low and high trust dynamics in organizations are embedded in wider society may help address the concerns about under-socialized, endogenous explanations and open the way for structure-agency analyses of building, maintaining and repairing intraorganizational trust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]