TY - CHAP
T1 - The Regionalisation of Danish Regional Policy
T2 - Governance and resource dependencies in transition
AU - Halkier, Henrik
N1 - First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing. Reissued 2018 by Routledge.
PY - 2018/2/5
Y1 - 2018/2/5
N2 - Since the beginning of the 1990s, Danish regional policy has changed dramatically. As of January 1991, all central government incentive schemes were terminated, and since then the main components of spatial economic policy have been a host of regional and local initiatives supplemented by EU structural funds. This chapter investigates the implications of the transformation of regional policy from the perspective of political decentralisation by trying to establish to what extent recent changes have increased the capacity of Danish regions to pursue their own agenda with regard to development. It provides a brief outline of the analytical framework, based primarily on contributions from traditions within policy analysis, network theory and the new institutionalism. In Denmark, however, with limited regional disparities and increasing international competition, the political will to target resources to address geographical imbalances at the expense of competitiveness must be in doubt.
AB - Since the beginning of the 1990s, Danish regional policy has changed dramatically. As of January 1991, all central government incentive schemes were terminated, and since then the main components of spatial economic policy have been a host of regional and local initiatives supplemented by EU structural funds. This chapter investigates the implications of the transformation of regional policy from the perspective of political decentralisation by trying to establish to what extent recent changes have increased the capacity of Danish regions to pursue their own agenda with regard to development. It provides a brief outline of the analytical framework, based primarily on contributions from traditions within policy analysis, network theory and the new institutionalism. In Denmark, however, with limited regional disparities and increasing international competition, the political will to target resources to address geographical imbalances at the expense of competitiveness must be in doubt.
KW - Danish regional policy
KW - network theory
KW - new institutionalism
KW - policy analysis
KW - Danish politics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071599547&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315205199-13
DO - 10.4324/9781315205199-13
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85071599547
SN - 9781138637597
SP - 221
EP - 245
BT - Governance, Institutional Change and Regional Development
PB - Routledge
ER -