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The search for policy innovation in urban governance : lessons from community-led regeneration partnerships

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Coaffee, Jon and Deas, I. (2008) The search for policy innovation in urban governance : lessons from community-led regeneration partnerships. Public Policy and Administration, Volume 23 (Number 2). pp. 167-187. doi:10.1177/0952076707086254

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076707086254

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Abstract

Contemporary innovation in local governance in England is, in part, trying to
formalize partnership working, drawing on the supposedly exemplary
experience of urban policy. The latter has a long history of efforts to promote
more effective intergovernmental coordination, vertically between
neighbourhood, local authority, regional and central government levels as
well as horizontally across agencies, and diagonally with civil society. The
reality, as this article demonstrates through the experience of New Labour’s
flagship New Deal for Communities initiative, is much more complex, even
in the case of ostensibly more successful partnerships. In this article we
evaluate two partnership case studies – one seen as successful and the other
as problematic – in order to highlight the importance of inter- and
intra-partnership governance and the potentially damaging concentration of
partnership efforts upon meeting spending and outcome targets at the expense
of a focus on more challenging issues such as community engagement and the
development of creative and innovative solutions to complex problems. This
analysis calls into question the practical viability of formalizing and
promoting more joined-up governance, reiterating the longstanding difficulty
policy makers have encountered in achieving more coordinated policy actions

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Journal or Publication Title: Public Policy and Administration
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0952-0767
Official Date: 2008
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Volume: Volume 23
Number: Number 2
Page Range: pp. 167-187
DOI: 10.1177/0952076707086254
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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