Abstract
In China, regional cooperation is a new phenomenon and it is currently receiving increasing attention and recognition from government and scholars. This paper attempts a comprehensive exploration of how power has been transferred from the central to the various local governments within this mechanism of regional cooperation in the Chang-Zhu-Tan urban cluster (CZT) during the past two decades. Regional institutions have been established as a multi-tiered arrangement to deal with regional cooperation issues. However, state-centric skewed governance, political competition among local governments and inter-ministry rivalries has caused complex power interplay for the regional institution and regional cooperation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 433-456 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Town Planning Review |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Central China
- Chang-Zhu-Tan
- governance
- regional cooperation
- urban cluster
