Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 775-795Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/2399654418760859
Keywords
Regional governance; regional development; regional policy; analytical framework
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [10001A_152942/1]
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Regional governance has received growing attention, not only from researchers, but also from politicians and practitioners of regional development. The understanding and usage of the concept, however, are highly heterogeneous: sometimes regional governance is described or explained in terms of its characteristics, processes and impacts, while at other times, it is framed as a tool for regional development. This article develops a definition and framework for a systematic assessment of various regional governance forms. For this purpose, it draws on material from a three-round Delphi survey among practitioners and researchers who are experts of regional governance. On this basis, a consolidated definition of regional governance is proposed as the vertical and horizontal coordination of regional transformation processes beyond administrative boundaries by state and non-state actors'. Furthermore, the framework identifies five dimensions of regional governance: (a) participation, (b) bindingness, (c) formalisation, (d) regional autonomy and (e) power relations. These dimensions are disaggregated into a total of 21 indicators to systematically describe and analyse different regional governance forms.
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