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This article looks at the two key forces in the spatial development of the EC in the run-up to 1992. On the one hand the pressure for greater integration and unification around a liberal market economy and on the other the fragmentation and defence of 'peripheral' regional interests against centralisation. In this context peripheral is as much a socio-economic concept as a geographical one. These reflections are based on recent research into the configuration of regional interests, institutions and policy networks in Scotland which need to be placed in a wider context of a single European marketplace. The two European Community developments of the free market and social charter (1992) encapsulate this powerful and potentially contradictory force. The former is based on liberalisation, including the removal of barriers and constraints on the movement of goods, services and labour within the Community. The latter is based on the continental European notion of social partnership involving the organised interests of European and nation-state institutions, labour and capital. The balance between the economic and social forces embodied in these two concepts has yet to be worked out in terms of which development will dominate in the creation of a more united Europe.

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Public AdministrationVolume 65, Issue 4 p. 455-466 HUNTING THE QUARC: AN INSTITUTION WITHOUT A ROLE? CHRIS MOORE, CHRIS MOORE Department of Administration Strathclyde Business SchoolSearch for more papers by this authorSIMON BOOTH, SIMON BOOTH Department of Administration Strathclyde Business SchoolSearch for more papers by this author CHRIS MOORE, CHRIS MOORE Department of Administration Strathclyde Business SchoolSearch for more papers by this authorSIMON BOOTH, SIMON BOOTH Department of Administration Strathclyde Business SchoolSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1987 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1987.tb00675.x This article is based on work carried out as part of the ESRC Corporation and Accountability initiative, ‘The Growth and Nature of Scottish Corporatism’. It is a revised version of a paper presented to the ESRC'S Tripartism and Training Workshop, Polytechnic of Central London, November 1986. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume65, Issue4December 1987Pages 455-466 RelatedInformation

The absence of a coherent industrial strategy embracing sectoral enterprise development at the level of national government in the UK has meant a shift to regional and local levels as far as concerted intervention is concerned. But whilst there has been considerable interest in the activities of the local authority enterprise boards there has not been the same attention given to the regional development agencies like the SDA. The ideologies of intervention of this agency and GLEB, for example, are in theory very different, yet each confronts a series of opportunities and constraints at the level of economic sectors