Conceptualising ‘generative power’: Evidence from the city-regions of England
Conceptualising ‘generative power’: Evidence from the city-regions of England
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概念化“发电能力”：来自英格兰城市地区的证据
作者：
M. Sandford
关于国家以下各级治理和领导的文献经常表明，当选领导人可以利用影响力和促进技能以及强制性权力、法律责任和资源来实现政策成果。这篇文章调查了影响力、人脉和领导力--或“生殖力”--本身能在多大程度上扩展一个地方政府机构的“执政能力”。它使用来自2017年在英国当选的六位大都会市长的活动的经验数据来探索，面对政策分歧以及机构和财政资源的严格限制，新机构是否寻求通过生殖力超越这些限制，以及使用的生殖力类型是否与之前的文献一致。研究结果表明，在英国的案例中，生殖力的许多模式都得到了遵循，但生成力并没有主导大都市市长早期的优先事项。他们对资金分配的关注表明，他们可能会发展成“赠款联盟”，最大限度地利用中央政府的资金，而不是制定独特的地方战略。本文对城市领导力和地方治理的文献有贡献，对司法设计也有一定的借鉴意义。
Literature on sub-national governance and leadership has frequently suggested that elected leaders can use influence and facilitation skills alongside coercive power, legal responsibilities and resources to achieve policy outcomes. This article investigates the degree to which influence, networking and leadership – or ‘generative power’ – can themselves extend a sub-national body’s ‘capacity to govern’. It uses empirical data from the activities of the six ‘metro-mayors’ elected in England in 2017 to explore whether new institutions, faced with tight limits on policy divergence and institutional and financial resources, seek to transcend these via generative power, and whether the types of generative power used are in line with the previous literature. Findings indicate that many of the previous patterns of generative power are followed in the English case, but also that generative power has not dominated the metro-mayors’ early priorities. Their focus on the distribution of funds suggests that they may develop into ‘grant coalitions’, maximising funds from central government in place of developing a distinct local strategy. The article contributes to the literatures on urban leadership and sub-national governance, and also has implications for jurisdictional design.
英国的权力下放、英国政治传统与缺乏协商、共识和考虑
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作者：
Richards D
通讯作者：
Richards D