Shall We Tell the Minister? Scale Matters in Public Policy: Place is a Geographic Institution

摘要: I present an argument with a number of interlocking aims. The main aims are to show that geographic scale matters in policy making and place is institution relevance. Management experience working inside the public sector has taught me geography, compared law economics, lacks effective operational definitions enhance geographer's communication abilities circles. To counter this difficulty, make case geographers social environmental sciences need scalar, reflexive, apolitical policy-oriented praxis geography more relevant. Drawing on foundational insight, how analysis affected when what seems evident at one may be absent or not another. In addition, can give rise ‘place effects’ which actor/agency status strategic intent. Place therefore considered as institution. Scalar deliberative place-based reasoning about policies (scalar policies) could applied systematically strategically within by academic for sector. Reflexive deliberations role policy-relevant discipline.