The rescaling of sub-national planning: Can localism resolve England’s spatial planning conundrum? (2017)
Journal Article
McGuinness, D., & Mawson, J. (2017). The rescaling of sub-national planning: Can localism resolve England’s spatial planning conundrum?. Town Planning Review, 88(3), 283-303. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2017.19

This paper analyses the recent reorganisation of sub-national planning in England. The abrupt termination in 2010 of regional spatial strategies (RSSs) left England as the only major country in north-western Europe without effective sub-national gove... Read More about The rescaling of sub-national planning: Can localism resolve England’s spatial planning conundrum?.

Public services in a “post-democratic age” : an alternative framework to network governance (2014)
Journal Article
Laffin, M., Mawson, J., & Ormston, C. (2014). Public services in a “post-democratic age” : an alternative framework to network governance. Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, 32(4), 762-776. https://doi.org/10.1068/c1261

This paper questions the continued dominance of the network governance approach in public policy and administration and proposes an alternative framework. We find little evidence to support claims for a paradigmatic shift towards network governance i... Read More about Public services in a “post-democratic age” : an alternative framework to network governance.