A Critique in Search of a Corpus: Re-visiting Governance and Re-interpreting Urban Politics

One of the most profound changes of the last two decades has been in the form and the function of local government. Its role as part of the local state has been challenged through the re-scaling and re-configuration of many of its aims. This paper examines the growth of business sector involvement and the ascendancy of the partnership model in urban development, as part of an analysis of the changes and the continuities that stretch across the local government – local governance conceptualization of political relations. I start the paper with a discussion of the main issues in the local governance literature as a precursor to a commentary onImrie and Raco's (1999) recent paper, 'How New is the New Local Governance? Lessons from the United Kingdom'. The wider literature is drawn upon to discuss some of the theoretical approaches used to analyse this much-vaunted transformation and three key themes are used to structure the remainder of the paper. I argue that Imrie and Raco caricature the work of other academics in order to make their claims over omissions from the literature. In doing so, they ignore or under-play how state restructuring and the logic of capital has often been the object of analysis, rather that the voluntarist incorporation of business élites into the local governing apparatus. Using empirical examples from three English cities I argue that while, on the one hand, their examples are revealing and serve to sensitize current debates around governance, the state and regulation, on the other hand, there is still a need to interpret these 'local' politics within a broader and more scale-sensitive framework and in more abstract terms. This demands a clear distinction between local governance as a concept, and its investigation in an empirical way.     

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论当代中国区域经济发展的两次战略西移

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本文认为唐三彩最主要的职能是充当冥器,但在现实生活中,唐三彩至少在两个方面发挥重要作用,一是用来制作宗教用品,二是用来制作建筑材料。     

徽派版画中的名作《古歙山川图》作者考

本文对徽派版画中的《古歙山川图》的作者做了比较详尽的考证。     

南宋官窑探源

南宋官窑源于越窑,其制品特点、工艺技术、窑炉设备与同期的越窑系窑场一脉相承。     

关于“玉器时代”说的溯源

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“骊”二题

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“坎曼尔诗签”真乎,伪乎?

我国新疆出土于唐代元和年间的“坎曼尔诗签” ,在70年代初期于北京展出后 ,学术界引起很大震动 ,但也产生了一些不同观点的争论。本文围绕“诗签”的真伪问题 ,对主要观点作了述评     

学术著作翻译的几个问题——以汉译《草原帝国》为例

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