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This concluding chapter of the book draws insights from the key findings of the study and reflects upon the primary objectives laid out in the introductory chapter.
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Law and Mooney, “We’ve Never Had It So Good,” 542.
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Colin Hay, “Continuity and Discontinuity in British Political Development,” in Postwar British Politics in Perspective, ed. David Marsh et al. (Malden: Polity Press, 1999), 35.
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See Walter Korpi, The Democratic Class Struggle (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983), 4, 8, 21. If this appears all too familiar, it is because we can relate to how in the modern context there are similar views about the world, as changes to society are caused by rapid technological advancement. We hear about the collapsing of class and the opening of opportunity to everyone in the new deliberative, digital, open government age. Yet, in the context of Britain there are still those who remind us that its society remains divided by class; the gap between the richest and poorest is wider than in any period in the twentieth century, and technology has not simply led to universal enrichment of the least well off. See Selina Todd, The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class (London: John Murray, 2015), 267.
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Kwon and Pontusson, “Globalization, Labour Power and Partisan Politics Revisited,” 254.
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John Myles and Jill Quadagno, “Political Theories of the Welfare State,” Social Service Review 76, 1 (2002): 38.
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Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 2.
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Dennis Pilon, “The Struggle over Actually Existing Democracy,” Socialist Register 54 (2018): 5.
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Walter Korpi, “Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social Rights During Sickness in Eighteen OECD Countries Since 1930,” American Sociological Review 54, 3 (1989): 325.
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Korpi, “Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship,” 316.
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Jens Bartelson, The Critique of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 4.
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Jamie Gough, “Class Relations and Local Economic Planning,” in Politics, Geography and Social Stratification, ed. Keith Hoggart and Eleonore Kofman (London: Croom Helm, 1986), 168–169.
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I do not delve into the differences among scholars concerning the politics of scale but rather draw on the similarities some of them share with respect to studying scales in relation the spatial geographies of capitalism and how class conflict is embedded in such spaces.
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Neil Brenner, New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 84.
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Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones, and Rhys A. Jones, “The Theoretical Challenge of Devolution and Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom,” in Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation, ed. Mark Tewdwr-Jones and Philip Allmendinger (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), 37.
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Jessop, “Institutional Re(turns) and the Strategic-Relational Approach,” 1226.
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Allan Cochrane, “Devolving the Heartland: Making Up a New Social Policy for the ‘South East’,” Critical Social Policy 26, 3 (2006): 685.
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McGarvey, “Devolution in Scotland: Change and Continuity,” 25.
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Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom, 1.
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Moran, Politics and Governance in the UK, 178–179.
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James Mitchell, “Evolution and Devolution: Citizenship, Institutions, and Public Policy,” Publius 36, 1 (2006): 165.
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Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis, 16.
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Gough, “Changing Scale as Changing Class Relations,” 186.
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Vlahos, N. (2020). Conclusion. In: The Political Economy of Devolution in Britain from the Postwar Era to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48729-4_7
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