Weathering the perfect storm? Austerity and institutional resilience in local government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6327188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vivien Lowndes (0000-0002-6935-2720, University of Nottingham), Kerry Mccaughie (UK) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-549 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557312x655747 |
| OpenAlex | W2328512361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
English local authorities face a combination of deep budget cuts and sharp increases in citizen demand, linked to the costs of recession and demographic changes. Evidence from case study research shows the dominance of cost-cutting and efficiency measures, as in previous periods of austerity. But creative approaches to service redesign are also emerging as the crisis deepens, based upon pragmatic politics and institutional bricolage. While the absence of radical new ideas and overt political conflict is surprising, local government reveals a remarkable capacity to reinvent its institutional forms to weather what amounts to a ‘perfect storm
Austerity · Bricolage · Dominance (genetics · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Local government · Macroeconomics · Meteorology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Recession · Resilience (materials science · Storm · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Borders and resilience
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Entrepreneurial urbanism, austerity and economic governance
Decentralisation and central-local relations
Making a difference
The behavioural foundations of urban and regional development
How does symbolic commitment strengthen the resilience of sustainability institutions? Exploring the role of bureaucrats in Germany, Finland, and the UK
How have the Care Act 2014 ambitions to support carers translated into local practice? Findings from a process evaluation study of local stakeholders' perceptions of Care Act implementation
Marginal Players? The Third Sector and Employability Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK
Why is austerity governable? A Gramscian urban regime analysis of Leicester, UK
The impact of austerity on funding green infrastructure
Improving city-scale measures of livable sustainability
City politics under austerity in Greece
The continuing failure of UK climate change mitigation policy
Austerity and governance
(Re)moving exclusions
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted
Managing moral distress
The Social Care Practitioner as Assessor
Divergent Practices in Statutory and Voluntary-Sector Settings? Social Work with Asylum Seekers
Distancing and limited resourcefulness
Evolving public sector roles in the leadership of place-based partnerships
The geographies of local austerity policies
Localism partnerships as informal associations
The geo‐constitution and responses to austerity
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Dealing with Austerity
Resilience, Agency and Coping with Hardship
Can agonism be institutionalised? Can institutions be agonised? Prospects for democratic design
Practising Resilience
Place-based leadership
Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress
The Dynamic Role of State and Nonstate Actors
Crisis management in English local government
Thinking about the ‘Local’ of Local Government
Religion and the city
The Great Survivor
Querying the resilient local authority
The everyday local state? Opening up and closing down informality in local governance
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government
In and beyond local government
Local authorities doing it for themselves
Local governance under the Conservatives
Big change, little change? Punctuation, increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government
Coping with the Cuts? The Management of the Worst Financial Settlement in Living Memory
Can alternative service delivery save cities after the Great Recession? Barriers to privatisation and cooperation
Community resilience
Guest editors’ introduction
Local government and practice ontologies
Austerity urbanism
Cuts without conflict
Limits of fiscal federalism
Austerity urbanism in England
Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |