This paper puts in critical focus a major tenet of the state rescaling literature. This is that over the last 25 years or so there has been a significant decentralization of state functions, largely with a view to re-energizing national economies. Several points are at issue. The first is that the evidence for a decentralization of any significance is insubstantial. Second, the territorial structure of the state has indeed been in question but largely as a result of bottom-up forces contesting it, in part, on distributional grounds. And third, the American case underlines both the Eurocentric character of this literature and the weakness of whatever decentralization has indeed occurred. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.
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State rescaling may take a variety of shapes although scant research has been carried out into the m...
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America started out with 13 state and today we have 50. Is that too many? As federal power and activ...
This article introduces a collection of papers that provide empirical studies of the impacts that re...
Almost every democratic country in the world started to decentralize and introduced local elections ...
Summary. The paper explores the contested re-con ® guration of the position of the national state as...
This paper puts in critical focus a major tenet of the state rescaling literature. This is that over...
Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the 'scale division of labour o...
Recent work on state rescaling has opened up productive lines of theorization and research. However,...
Lively debates over the future of the state resurfaced in the 1980s as scholars, critics, and politi...
Funding Information: This work was supported by Economic and Social Research Council: [Grant Number ...
Rescaling the state provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of...
This article is concerned with the rescaling of the state and with the impact of this rescaling on p...
Over the past 100 years, modern Western states have undergone two historic transformations. The firs...
State rescaling may take a variety of shapes although scant research has been carried out into the m...
The European nation-state as an ideal-type was a polity bounded by fixed borders, which enclosed an ...
The average size of states within the international system steadily expanded during the 19th century...
America started out with 13 state and today we have 50. Is that too many? As federal power and activ...
This article introduces a collection of papers that provide empirical studies of the impacts that re...
Almost every democratic country in the world started to decentralize and introduced local elections ...
Summary. The paper explores the contested re-con ® guration of the position of the national state as...