Local Representations in Crisis: Governance, Citizenship Regimes, and UK TECs and Ontario Local Boards

In this paper I critically examine new forms of state–civil-society arrangements via a case study of non business stakeholder representation in UK Training and Enterprise Councils and in Local Boards for Training and Adjustment in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on insights from both poststructural and reg...

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Published inEnvironment and planning. D, Society & space Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 409 - 426
Main Author Rutherford, Tod D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2006
Subjects
Canada
Civil society
Education policy
Governance
Ontario
Political science
Public administration
Teaching
United Kingdom
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Summary:In this paper I critically examine new forms of state–civil-society arrangements via a case study of non business stakeholder representation in UK Training and Enterprise Councils and in Local Boards for Training and Adjustment in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on insights from both poststructural and regulationist approaches, I situate their development and crises in what Jenson and Phillips term ‘citizenship regimes’. Local representation of labour and equity groups could be effective and reflected struggles over both recognition and redistribution. However, representation often depended on resources drawn from other scales and especially on the relationship of stakeholders with the provincial and national state. Local representation has some autonomy from macroshift in citizenship regimes, but in both cases there is strong evidence that the state is able to incorporate stakeholder representation into what Jessop terms ‘metagovernance strategies’, although it cannot necessarily control it.
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ISSN:0263-7758
1472-3433
DOI:10.1068/d383