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This chapter reviews the development of regime theory and the theory of hegemony, compares and contrasts these approaches, and identifies their implications for the analysis of the state and society at the local level. The newly emerging pattern of urban governance has been theorised in terms of the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist modes of regulation or state forms. Neo-Gramscian theory and regime theory clearly demonstrate a degree of convergence, and the similarities between these are substantially greater than those that attended previous generations of Marxists and pluralists. Our understanding of the locally networked state, and of the patterns that are summarised under the broad headings of ‘Fordist’ and ‘post-Fordist’, can be advanced by opening a dialogue between neo-Marxism and neo-pluralism. Regeneration activities in Birmingham have also focused on districts beyond the city centre. The …