So Close, But So Far? The Davies Commission and the Contested Politics of UK Airport Expansion

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorGriggs, Stevenen
dc.contributor.authorHowarth, Daviden
dc.date.acceptance2018-04-25en
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-04T08:32:43Z
dc.date.available2018-07-04T08:32:43Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-15
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. Open access articleen
dc.description.abstractAviation expansion and the construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport is firmly back on the political agenda. Yet, the stark fact remains that a growing list of British governments has been unable to engineer a partial or temporary policy settlement in aviation. Exploring the challenges of reaching such a settlement, this article characterises the shifting and contested political and policy contexts of UK aviation. It begins by exploring the ‘wicked issue’ of aviation expansion before foregrounding how the politics of air travel is riven by competing policy frames, fragmented governance and the absence of gatekeepers. It argues that the Davies Commission and its efforts to remove aviation from the domain of partisan politics provided little more than a temporary respite for government. It thus concludes by questioning whether the May government’s expansion proposals will succeed this time around, outlining how the contributions in this collection address the themes and issues of this overriding policy puzzle.en
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dc.identifier.citationGriggs, S. and Howarth, D. (2018) So Close, But So Far? The Davies Commission and the Contested Politics of UK Airport Expansion, Political Quarterly, 89 (3), pp. 427-433en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12519
dc.identifier.issn0032-3179
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/16320
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.researchgroupLocal Governance Research Centre (LGRC)en
dc.researchinstituteLocal Governance Research Centre (LGRC)en
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)en
dc.subjectAirports Commissionen
dc.subjectairportsen
dc.subjectaviation expansionen
dc.subjectHeathrowen
dc.subjectwicked problemsen
dc.titleSo Close, But So Far? The Davies Commission and the Contested Politics of UK Airport Expansionen
dc.typeArticleen

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