dc.contributor.advisor |
Professor Richard Le Heron |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wetzstein, Steffen |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2007-11-22T02:05:45Z |
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dc.date.available |
2007-11-22T02:05:45Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2007 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Thesis (PhD--Geography)--University of Auckland, 2007. |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2131 |
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dc.description.abstract |
In the context of a peripheral, small and largely resource-based economy, New
Zealand’s economic policy makers have for long faced the key challenge of influencing
global connections of local actors in value-adding activities. This dissertation seeks to
interpret the nature and trajectories of governance activities relating to economic
processes in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city-region, in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
This period, a time of neoliberalising political-economic conditions following intensive
economic restructuring in the 1980s, saw a re-entry of central government to the
governing landscape of Auckland. The research focuses on how regional actors such as
the Auckland Regional Growth Forum, the Auckland Regional Economic Development
Strategy and the business-driven initiatives of ‘Competitive Auckland’, ‘Committee for
Auckland’ and the ‘Knowledge Wave’ conferences, gradually became aligned with an
emerging governmental project from central government that re-defined perceptions of
and expectations about Auckland’s economic role.
The research approach is informed by several literatures, especially those of the
regulation, actor-network and governmentality schools. The different questions that
spring from these literatures enable scrutiny of Auckland’s institutional developments in
terms of the identification of interdependencies amongst governing interests, the nature
and degree of mediation of investment processes from institutional experimentation and
the possible emergence of effects from new governance arrangements. The thesis
situates and uses the policy and academic positioning of the researcher to develop
methodologies to interrogate the emergence of the material and discursive dimensions
of the regional economic governance framework of Auckland.
This thesis argues that ongoing institutional experimentation has been both a pre-cursor
to and an active ingredient in the re-appearance of the New Zealand central state in
Auckland’s economic governance. Importantly, governing is increasingly complex; and
about mobilising a range of actors by influencing their perceptions about governing and
investment goals through discursive governance practices. In this context, current socio-economic interventions can be best understood as contingent assemblages of governing
resources, producing discursive alignments of interests that lead to a re-working of
processes and practices of the state-regulatory apparatus. The effects of the institutional
developments on private investment decisions are largely unknown however. While the
emerging institutional framework for economic governance involving Auckland is
increasingly embracing Auckland’s globalising character, influencing the city-region’s
economic participation in the globalising world economy may be harder to achieve as a
political project than current policy rhetoric implies. Theoretically, this research
challenges territorial conceptualisations of political economic management and
contributes to the wider development of a relational-institutional framework for
understanding sub-national economic governance.
Auckland, globalising economic processes, economic governance, state,
institutions, policy, knowledge, contingency, regulation, discourses |
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dc.format |
Scanned from print thesis |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PhD Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA1720915 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Economic Governance for a Globalising Auckland? Political Projects, Institutions and Policy |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Geography |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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thesis.degree.name |
PhD |
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dc.subject.marsden |
Fields of Research::370000 Studies in Human Society::370400 Human Geography::370404 Economic geography |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.local.anzsrc |
1604 - Human Geography |
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pubs.org-id |
Faculty of Science |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112871075 |
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