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Regional development policies in most market and mixed economies are now under review. In many cases this is caused by the often intuitively and politically felt — dissatisfaction with the results of past policies. Although interregional disparities in quantitative economic indicators (gross domestic product, sectoral employment structure) have been decreasing, at least until the beginning of the 1970s,(1) interregional tensions in social and political terms have increased rapidly during the last decade.(2)
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See, for example, Willem Molle et al., Regional Disparity and Economic Development in the Enropean Community (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1980). This thorough study analyses the development of sub-national regions of Enrope between 1950 and 1970.
Michael Hechter, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536–1966 (London: Routledge, 1975);
J. Milton Esman, Ethnic Conflict in the Western World (London: Cornell University Press, 1977);
Sidney Tarrow, P. J. Katzenstein and L. Graziano (eds), Territorial Politics in Industrial Nations (London: Praeger, 1978); and Michael Hechter and M. Levy, ‘The comparative analysis of ethno-regional movements’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1979).
At the Interdisciplinary Institute for Urban and Regional Studies (IIR), University of Economics (Wirtschaftsuniversit’dt), Vienna, on ‘Regional policy for peripheral areas and reduction in aggregate economic growth rates’ (W. St8hr, project leader; F. T8dtling, project coordinator; collaborators: E. Gehmacher, H. Herzog, J. Kaniak, B. and B. Schmeikal). See also F. Tödtling, ‘Organisatorischer Status von Betrieben und ArbeitsplatzqualitHt in 8sterreichischen peripheren und entwicklungsschwachen Regionen’ (Organisational status of plants and quality of work in Austrian peripheral and less developed regions), PhD dissertation at the IIR, University of Economics, Vienna. Similar questions are dealt with in: Franz-Josef Bade, ’Funktionale Aspekte der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur’, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, vol. 37, h. 6 (1979) pp. 253–67;
D. Massey, ‘In what sense a regional problem?’, Regional Studies, vol. 13 (1979) pp. 233–43, and in the literature quoted there.
P. Streeten, ‘On the theory of development policy’, in J. Dunning (ed.), Economic Analysis and the Multinational Enterprise (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974) pp. 252–79.
W. Stöhr and F. Tödtling, ‘Evaluation of regional policies: experiences in market and mixed economies’, in N. M. Hansen (ed.), Human Settlement Systems (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1978).
W. Stöhr and F. Tödtling, ‘Spatial equity: some antitheses to current regional development doctrine’, in H. Folmer and J. Oosterhaven(eds), Spatial Inequalities and Regional Development (Boston, Mass.: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979);
W. Stöhr, ‘Development from below: the bottom-up and periphery-inward development paradigm’, IIR -Discussion 6 (1980);
also in W. Stöhr and D. R. F. Taylor, Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries (London: Wiley, 1981).
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Stöhr, W.B. (1983). Alternative Strategies for Integrated Regional Development of Peripheral Areas. In: Seers, D., Öström, K. (eds) The Crises of the European Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06588-2_2
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