Publisher's Synopsis
Dimitrios Christopoulos brings together attitudes and values shared among local political and business actors in relation to regional growth and demonstrates a major link between values and regional growth prospects. Evidence supports the proposition that the sharing of attitudes on issues of 'structural efficiency' is vital to regional growth, while attitudes on issues of 'social equity' are less significant. Network links between elite actors are essential in the policy process, but the determinant factor of the effectiveness and significance of those links is the sharing of certain values among wider elite groups in a region.
