Morphet, JR; Clifford, B; (2016) 'Who else would we speak to?' National Policy Networks in Post-Devolution Britain: the case of spatial planning. Public Policy and Administration 10.1177/0952076716669978. (In press).

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The implementation of the devolution process that started in 1999 was frequently assumed by contemporary commentators and scholars to lead to a fractured relationship with the national centre and a fragmented state as a consequence. However, discourse analysis and policy reviews in relation to spatial planning policies, demonstrates that agendas and legislation implemented by central and devolved governments since devolution demonstrate marked similarities in intention and type (albeit with some differences in name and delivery route). In investigating the potential sites and sources of these policy similarities and possible mobilities, and drawing on research data, we have undertaken research on the British Irish Council’s spatial planning task group as one of the potential candidates to be considered as a national policy community or network. We report our research findings that following devolution, policy development and delivery in one specific policy areas, has taken a convergent rather than divergent character and we discuss the range of reasons for this.

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