Scaling as a pluricentric coordination toolkit: the case of Danish Regional Development Policies

摘要: The creation of regional meso-level governments links in with the tendency ‘new regionalism’ and it opens for a plethora plural processes, actors levels assumed relevant to public policies. However, literature on regionalization multilevel governance often refers regions as closed entities or simply governance. This paper counters that by illustrating multiple relational constructions regionality within policy field development planning. It is argued political-administrative are constructions, marked pluricentric coordination scaling, defined time-spatial horizons action, central toolkit contemporary territorial theoretical argument unfolded reference study Danish processes. analyzed how main regionalist scales constructed coordinated While previous research position potential nodes accumulation, which bypass national state, this not case Denmark. Here, have few authorities their ‘broad’ appears heavily circumscribed national, local strategies more ‘narrow’ entrepreneurial activities. (193)