Recent papers have argued that spatial justice should be pursued through a place-based approach, which enables local people to assert their own capacity to act and to pursue their own positive visions: an approach fundamental to LEADER. This paper considers the extent to which LEADER constitutes local action addressing spatial justice through a case study in England. Analysis of this case leads to questions about the extent to which apparent localism is constrained by ‘government at a distance’ and how this can affect the ability of LAGs to pursue spatial justice. It is suggested that LEADER displays a tension between network and hierarchy modes of governance, increasingly under control of hierarchy in this instance despite its origins as networked CLLD. The paper concludes that LEADER has potential to contribute to spatial justice – both distributive and procedural – but that this may be frustrated by the imposition of different priorities and controls at local or from higher levels. Further case studies will be required to investigate how widely this potential is realised or frustrated across Europe's varying national and local political contexts.

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领导者与空间正义

最近的论文认为，应该通过基于场所的方法来追求空间正义，这可以使当地人民维护自己的行为能力并追求自己的积极愿景：这是领导者的基本方法。本文通过一个案例研究来考虑领导者在多大程度上构成了解决空间正义的地方行动。对这种情况的分析引发了以下问题：“远距离政府”在多大程度上限制了明显的地方主义，以及这如何影响LAG追求空间正义的能力。建议LEADER在网络和层次结构的治理模式之间显示一种张力，在这种情况下，尽管它的起源是联网的CLLD，但它越来越受到层次结构的控制。该论文的结论是，领导者有可能为空间正义做出贡献（包括分配性和程序性），但是在地方或更高级别实施不同的优先级和控制措施可能会挫败这一点。将需要进行进一步的案例研究，以研究这种潜力在欧洲不同的国家和地方政治背景下的实现或受挫程度。