Is the grass always greener? Making sense of convergence and divergence in regeneration policies in England and Scotland

摘要: This paper is concerned with the trajectories of regeneration policy discourse and practice in a devolved UK context. Over recent years asymmetrical nature governance has intensified, exemplified by political containment Scotland reconfiguration sub-national institutional architecture England. Against backdrop transfusion Holyrood’s devolution agenda Westminster’s localism programme, an empirical analysis contemporary English Scottish provided. We investigate extent to which perceived divergences government resonate those at sharp end practice, informed concepts derived from convergence/divergence literature. The key finding coexistence ideological divergence, replete documentation, but growing convergence actual existing evidenced nature, scale initiatives. enveloping fiscal context austere politics, producing what anticipated be protracted period financial retrenchment, appears defining factor urban convergence.