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Q- Governance
of Brownfield Regeneration: Institutions, Policies, Outcomes, and Best
Practice in the UK and Germany
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Overview
This project,
which runs until 2010, will adopt a comparative perspective to analyse
the impact of institutional settings, norms, and principles on the
governance of Brownfield regeneration in the United Kingdom (Thames
Gateway area) and the Federal Republic of Germany (City of Berlin)
over the period 1990-2008. The two cases are chosen as part of a ‘Most
Different Systems Design’ (MDSD) of comparison and it is intended
that the German case will provide an effective contrast to the UK
case in terms of institutional architecture, modes and practices of
governance. Thus, the project will focus on (i) institutional design,
(ii) modes of governance, (iii) relevant stakeholders, (iv) the norms
and knowledge underpinning policy processes, and (v) the evaluation
of policy outputs, outcomes, and best practice across the two cases.
The research asks three main research questions:
- What
are the specific institutional conditions under which effective
Brownfield regeneration takes place in the UK and Germany?
- Can
we identify and prescribe possible amendments to existing policy
and practice in the UK?
- On the
basis of our comparative research, what refinements need to be made
to existing models of governance?
The projected outputs of the proposed research will be:
- A detailed
empirical account of the development of modes of governance within
the same sector in the UK and Germany over the period since 2000;
our objective being to draw meaningful comparisons between the two
cases in order to identify examples of best practice in an area
of national and international significance.
- A series
of tests of established models of governance; our objective being
to develop a more refined theoretical model of governance with more
potential explanatory power across more diverse cases.
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