Changing scale as changing class relations: Variety and contradiction in the politics of scale

Political Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-211

  Gough, Jamie ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalist contradictions; Class relations; European Union; Neoliberalism; Scale; Social democracy

Indexed keywords

NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL PROCESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342331060     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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