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This article presents a new and innovative framework to help analyse policy-making and depoliticisation within subnational governance arrangements. By focusing on the capacity (not the autonomy) of subnational governments to achieve their political objectives, and incorporating external actors along both the vertical and horizontal dimensions, it provides a dynamic tool to understand the extent to which municipal governments influence local policy-making processes. Furthermore, it stresses that greater ‘localism’ (or independence) between vertical tiers of government is likely to weaken subnational bodies and result in them becoming more interdependent with (or even dependent on) horizontal non-state actors within the locality. This would weaken their position in local governance arrangements and exacerbate the depoliticised nature of decision-making.
Author(s): Eckersley P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Policy Studies
Year: 2017
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Pages: 76-90
Online publication date: 23/05/2016
Acceptance date: 09/03/2016
Date deposited: 11/03/2016
ISSN (print): 0144-2872
ISSN (electronic): 1470-1006
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2016.1188910
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2016.1188910
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