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Murray Stewart puts forward the thesis that despite the advantages of the new forms of inter-municipal cooperation (improved regional division of labour, increased innovation in dealing with problems, etc.), such links are particularly precarious in the UK because they primarily constitute strategic ‘risk avoidance partnerships’. Consequently he considers ‘a unified regional administration illusory’. As Stewart suggests, the main reasons for problems encountered with cooperation in England
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Fürst, D. (1999). Commentary on Murray Stewart’s Thesis. In: Blanke, B., Smith, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982273_4
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