LOCAL GOVERNANCE, THE CRISES OF FORDISM AND THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES OF REGULATION

Citation
M. Goodwin et J. Painter, LOCAL GOVERNANCE, THE CRISES OF FORDISM AND THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES OF REGULATION, Transactions Institute of British Geographers, 21(4), 1996, pp. 635-648
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Geografhy
ISSN journal
00202754
Volume
21
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
635 - 648
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-2754(1996)21:4<635:LGTCOF>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
During the last fifteen years the local government system in Britain h as been transformed into one of local governance in which a multitude of unelected agencies (public, private and voluntary) have become invo lved in attempting to influence the fortunes of local areas. In this p aper, we locate the roots of this shift in the crisis of the Fordist m ode of regulation and political responses to it, suggest that a rework ed regulation theory can provide a useful perspective from which to in terpret current changes and outline the research framework that such a perspective involves. Although a key role for local government in For dist processes of regulation may be identified, it is doubtful that ne w forms of local governance are contributing to the emergence of stabl e regulation in the 1990s. One reason for this is the geographical dif ferentiation of contemporary regulatory processes.