Experimental governance and territorial development in the multilevel polity

Morgan, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-2231 2027. Experimental governance and territorial development in the multilevel polity. Cowell, Margaret, Kinossian, Nadir, Lang, Thilo, Rousseau, Max and Sood, Ashima, eds. A Handbook Of Local And Regional Development (2nd Edition), Routledge,

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Abstract

The history of territorial development policy in many parts of the world has been dominated by one debate above all others: what is the appropriate balance between centralising power in the name of solidarity and devolving power for the sake of subsidiarity? While this governance question is an intrinsically significant issue, an end in itself, it also has a very important instrumental significance in the sense that it is the means to an end because governance arrangements can foster or frustrate the institutional structures and networks through which strategies of development are framed and fashioned. This chapter explores the theoretical as well as the policy implications of the “good governance” debate, which aims to calibrate the twin pressures of directionality and subsidiarity. To illustrate the tensions, the chapter draws on the experience of the UK, a country in the throes of a new territorial debate about the pros and cons of the polycentric state, a debate that highlights the tensions between centrifugal and centripetal forces in a multilevel polity.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Routledge
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2026 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184860

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