‘Rescaling the state’ in question
‘Rescaling the state’ in question
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DOI：
10.1093/cjres/rsn029
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2009-03
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K. Cox
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K. Cox
这篇文章对国家重塑文学的一个主要原则进行了批判性的关注。这就是说，在过去25年左右的时间里，国家职能显著下放，主要是为了重振国民经济。有几点是有争议的。首先，任何重要的权力下放的证据都是虚无缥缈的。其次，国家的领土结构确实受到了质疑，但这在很大程度上是自下而上的力量在一定程度上出于分配原因而对其进行竞争的结果。第三，美国的案例既突显了这部文献的欧洲中心性质，也突显了实际上发生的任何权力下放的弱点。
This paper puts in critical focus a major tenet of the state rescaling literature. This is that over the last 25 years or so there has been a significant decentralization of state functions, largely with a view to re-energizing national economies. Several points are at issue. The first is that the evidence for a decentralization of any significance is insubstantial. Second, the territorial structure of the state has indeed been in question but largely as a result of bottom-up forces contesting it, in part, on distributional grounds. And third, the American case underlines both the Eurocentric character of this literature and the weakness of whatever decentralization has indeed occurred.