British Regionalism and Devolution: The Challenges of State Reform and European Integration (Regions, Cities & Public Policy) Book

Regional Development and Public Policy Series In conjunction with the Regional Studies Association: The International Forum for Regional Development Policy and Research Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, are pleased to announce that we are the new publishers of the Regional Development and Public Policy Series. Regional Development and Public Policy is an international series that aims to provide authoritative analyses of the new significance of regions and cities for economic development and public policy. It seeks to combine fresh theoretical and empirical insights with constructive policy evaluation and debates, and to provide a definitive set of conceptual, practical and topical studies in the field of regional and urban public policy analyis. Series Editor: Ron Martin, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
The contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties.
They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined andaccentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.