Governance in Flanders’ regional policy: subregional platforms as development coalitions

Actively engaging citizens is one of the main objectives behind the emergence of governance in the policy making process. The former top-down approach characterized by strong hierarchical relationships and a large distance between policy and citizens, is replaced by an approach that seeks important bottom-up (local) input. New partnerships between non-traditional and political actors are formed in the decision making process in order to engage citizens.Since the 1990s, the governance idea has gradually become a central focus of regional development policy. One of the driving forces behind this... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Cabus, Peter
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Verlag/Hrsg.: National Committee of Geography of Belgium
Schlagwörter: governance / regional policy / subregional platforms / development coalition / regionaal beleid / streekplatformen / groeicoalities
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27084422
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Link(s) : http://belgeo.revues.org/15747

Actively engaging citizens is one of the main objectives behind the emergence of governance in the policy making process. The former top-down approach characterized by strong hierarchical relationships and a large distance between policy and citizens, is replaced by an approach that seeks important bottom-up (local) input. New partnerships between non-traditional and political actors are formed in the decision making process in order to engage citizens.Since the 1990s, the governance idea has gradually become a central focus of regional development policy. One of the driving forces behind this development is certainly the politically friendly nature of global-local theory. It provides local politicians with an external enemy (the global) and a solution (the mobilization of local actors in development coalitions). From this perspective, this paper analyses the developments in Europe and especially in Flanders, where sub-regional platforms act as development coalitions.The paper concludes that these platforms contribute to a governance structure that enables genuine public participation in policy making. At the same time, it offers a more sceptical assessment of the impact of development coalitions on economic processes. Territorial identification is a tangible outcome of the process, whilst the notion of localized knowledge spillovers is confined to academic speculation. ; De burger actief betrekken bij het beleid is een van de hoofdmotieven om governance systemen op te zetten. Hierbij wordt het top down beleid dat gekarakteriseerd wordt door hiërarchische relaties en een grote afstand tussen het beleid en de burger, vervangen door een beleid dat in toenemende mate open staat voor een bottom up (lokale) inbreng. Om de burger te betrekken in het besluitvormingsproces ontstaan er nieuwe partnerschappen tussen politieke en andere actoren in de maatschappij.Vanaf de jaren 1990 is een governance benadering geleidelijk aan een centrale invalshoek geworden in het regionaal-economisch beleid. Een van de drijvende ...