Whatever happened to Régulation theory? The Régulation approach and local government revisited
Whatever happened to Régulation theory? The Régulation approach and local government revisited
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监管理论发生了什么变化？监管方法和地方政府重新审视
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2009
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Toby S. James
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Toby S. James
本文有助于一个正在进行的辩论的因果来源的政策变化，考虑是否规则化的方法，这在很大程度上被丢弃，自20世纪90年代以来，可以帮助解释经济发展政策的变化在英国地方政府的水平。首先，“下降”的方法是解释从20世纪90年代采访的方法的主要指数。其次，该方法适用于地方经济政策的叙述在约克市1980-2006年。在应用规则化方法时，遇到了一些问题。作为一种宏观方法，它缺乏更好的工具来解释当地变化的所有方面。此外，这种方法由于过分强调了经济危机在变革中的作用，因而容易受到过度决定论的指责。在约克的例子中，变化的原因不是福特主义的任何危机，而是在国家和国际治理领域接受新自由主义，福特主义危机的倡导者可能夸大了这种必然性。然而，将规则化方法应用于案例研究，再次肯定了更广泛的霸权政治斗争和经济变革对地方制度研究的重要性，以及更全面的分析对制度变迁研究的重要性。如果没有与更广泛的经济和政治霸权斗争的某种联系，即规则化方法所提供的联系，那么中观层次的理论本身就缺乏。鉴于资本主义的新危机，这种方法可能值得重新审视。
This article contributes to an ongoing debate about the causal source of policy change by considering whether the Régulation approach, which has been largely discarded since the 1990s, can help to explain change in economic development polices at the level of local government in the UK. First, the ‘decline’ of the approach is explained by interviewing key exponents of the approach from the 1990s. Second, the approach is applied to a narrative of local economic policy in the City of York 1980–2006. In applying the Régulation approach, a number of problems are encountered. Chiefly, as a macro-approach, it lacks the finer tools to be able to explain all aspects of local change. Moreover, the approach is open to the charge of over-determinism by over-privileging the role of economic crisis in change. In the case of York, the cause of change has not been any crisis of Fordism but instead an acceptance of neo-liberalism in national and international spheres of governance, the inevitability of which may be overstated by exponents of the crisis of Fordism. However, the application of the Régulation approach to the case study reaffirms the importance of broader hegemonic political struggles and economic change to the study of local institutions, and the insights that more holistic analysis can make to the study of institutional change. Without some linkage to the broader economic and political hegemonic struggles, that the Régulation approach provides, meso-level theories are inherently wanting. The approach may be worth revisiting in the light of the new crisis of capitalism.