J S Davies
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 205171 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J S Davies |
| PRENOMES | J S |
| SOBRENOME | Davies |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIES J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2498-6946 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 755 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
The hidden face of local power
Boards are an affront to equality and to democracy argues Mirya Holman in her original, comprehensive and empirically compelling review of the phenomenon. Taking in the history of boards from the 1...
Urban crisis? Reconstructing a ubiquitous concept
The concept of crisis is ubiquitous in urban studies. It is contested and debated across the multi-disciplinary field and in the public sphere. Recent research builds on longstanding debates about how to use the concept with greater precision and efficacy. Employing Janet Roitman's concept of anti-crisis , this intervention argues for recognising the boundedness of the concept, and for working more reflexively with and against it
Towards a crisis of resilience? Eight takes on a troubling concept
Framed by the contradictory tonalities of United Nations (UN) discourse, the paper argues that the global governance concept of resilience is being drawn into the very crises it seeks to mitigate, pointing to a possible crisis of resilience as a master concept for governing the Risk Society. Through a wide-ranging interdisciplinary review, the paper therefore reconsiders the utility of the concept in addressing anthropocenic crises, and potential…
Crisis management in English local government
Research on local government in the UK during the era of austerity has shown that the decisions taken by local councils to cope with financial stresses were often narrated through the discourse of ‘resilience’, referencing their capacity to innovate and transform services, while protecting service provision in core areas. This emphasis on ‘resilience’ focused on the deployment of strategies to overcome funding challenges. However, this earlier re…
Gramscian considerations on the contentious politics of austere neoliberalism
In dialogue with Della Porta’s work on protests as critical junctures and drawing on the comparative analysis of four case studies in Europe (Barcelona and Dublin) and North America (Baltimore and Montréal), the paper develops a neo-Gramscian perspective on the impact and legacies of urban resistance to austere neoliberalism after the Global Economic Crisis (GEC) of 2008–9. Framed by the postulated ‘interregnum’ in the hegemony of neoliberalism, …
The limits of “resilience”
The concept of “resilience” is ubiquitous in global governance, extending from climate and ecological issues to practically all spheres of human endeavor. However, post‐pandemic discourses suggest that the concept may no longer be capable of synthesizing diverse and diverging geopolitical interests into common policy goals. Responding to what we see as an emerging “crisis of resilience,” we reconsider the utility of the concept and advance “irres…
Urban governance in the age of austerity
Drawing from neo-Gramscian theory, the paper explores how urban austerity governance mediates crises of neoliberal hegemony. Focusing on the decade after the Global Economic Crisis of 2008-2009, it compares four European cities disclosing five intersecting characteristics of urban political economy that contributed to sustaining and disrupting austere neoliberalism. Austere neoliberalism was sustained through three characteristics: economic ratio…
Beyond the consolations of professionalism
The British university system is in a deep crisis, born of a two-pronged assault. The crisis is born firstly from decades of neoliberal marketisation and the rise of a remote and authoritarian executive elite presiding over a downwardly mobile and culturally deprivileged academic profession. We call this process neoliberal managerialism. It is born secondly from the ideological and political assault on universities, currently led by the Tories, r…
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain
New municipalism in Spain arose from a major political wave, now in a period of crisis and electoral retreat. This paper applies a regime-theoretic framework to analyse new municipalist governance in two smaller city cases: A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. It argues that whilst new municipalist electoral victories inaugurated a crisis for established regimes, the crucial weakness was that they did not consolidate new urban regimes. Municipali…
Brexit and invasive species
The article addresses the issue of invasive non-native species in Britain and its proximate cultural and political implications. Notably, it charts the co-option of this issue by sections of the nationalist press since the escalation of the European migrant crisis in 2015 and their strategic metaphorical alignment of human and extra-human migration, particularly in the period surrounding the Brexit referendum. These reports serve as the basis for…
From crisis to catastrophe
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event, but what became apparent almost immediately was that while the virus seems indiscriminate, vulnerability and the capacity to mitigate its impact are not spread equally, either between or within countries. Years of austere neoliberalism in Europe have exacerbated inequality and precarity, acting as a ‘pre-existing condition’ onto which the virus has now landed. The question we ask is: when the pandemic subs…
Governance
Sørensen and Torfing assert that “governance” has become a highly \ninfluential paradigm, able to influence the conduct of governing and thus contribute \nto improving our economies and societies. In responding, we take issue with this \npivotal claim, arguing that governance is rather a parochial and decaying paradigm, \nwhich failed to improve the way societies and economies were governed
Why is austerity governable? A Gramscian urban regime analysis of Leicester, UK
Austerity has been delivered in the UK without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between urban regime theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the article considers how austerity was normalized and made governable in the city of Leicester. It shows how Leicester navigated waves of crisis, restructuring, and austerity, positioning itself as a multicultural city of entrepreneurs. The article explores historical influen…
Urban Regime Theory
Urban regime theory developed during the 1980s in response to economic determinism and structuralist readings of city politics. This contribution explores the regime‐theoretical focus on the need for businesses and city governments to cooperate in order to deliver their respective agendas, and the agency required for them to collaborate successfully in sustainable coalitions. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the approach and considers …
Interrogating urban crisis
The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna by opening up the concept of urban crisis to critical scrutiny. It begins by exploring how urban ‘crisis-talk’ tends to over-extend the concept in ways that can render it shallow or meaningless. The paper looks, second, at differe…
Austerity urbanism
This paper explores neoliberalisation and its counter-currents through a six-case study of austerity urbanism in Spain and the UK. Applying Urban Regime Theory it highlights the role of urban politics in driving, variegating and containing neoliberalism since the 2008 crash. Variegated austerity regimes contribute to strengthening neoliberalism, but with limits. Welfarism survives austerity in felicitous circumstances. And, where contentious poli…
Network governance in Russia
The 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
New perspectives on urban power and public policy
Urban power and political agency
Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies
Critical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary capitalist city. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions , which is re…
Contesting governance hegemonies
Contesting governance hegemonies
The papers in Part 1 of this two-part symposium (Vol. 8, No. 1) explored conceptual and ideological challenges to governance hegemonies. Part 2 presents three papers addressing practical contestati
Coercive Cities
Urban theory has largely overlooked the continuing centrality of coercion in the governance \nof cities. The paper argues that urban research should take everyday coercion far more seriously \nin the next decade than it did in the previous two. It highlights seven key research questions: what kinds \nof coercive power do cities have at their disposal? In what ways are cities terrains of coercion? Who are the agents of coercion? Who are its subjec…
Rethinking urban power and the local state
Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian approaches enjoy considerable influence in research on the mutations of neoliberal governance in cities. However, both are prone to treating coercion as the antithesis of power, leading them to downplay the coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards non-coercive power. The integral state rejects the power–violence dualism, depicting …
How cities can transform democracy
Where are we to find the Demos, ask Beveridge and Koch (p. 156)? This important and intellectually stimulating book undertakes a journey of discovery through many places, from the politically ambiv...
Understanding Policy Transfer
At the same time that comparative and international political scientists have been confronting the problems of analysing state behaviour under conditions of uncertainty, state‐centred political scientists are attempting, somewhat belatedly, to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty which underpins modern governance. Yet despite similar research agendas these disciplines have continued to speak past each other. This article contends t…
The governance of urban regeneration
This paper offers a critique of the concept of governance as networks. Using the complementary concept of regime governance, it argues that networks are not the primary mode of governance in the politics of urban regeneration in the UK. Drawing on primary and secondary material, it is argued that Central Government is becoming more influential in the local policy arena. In the ‘mix’ of market, hierarchy and network, hierarchy is more pervasive th…
The Limits of Partnership
The challenge of enhancing the ‘democratic anchorage’ of partnerships has become a central concern in policy studies. Radical reform proposals designed to level the deliberative playing field include community veto powers and the appointment of neutral arbiters. Welcome as they would be, however, it is questionable whether such reforms would overcome power asymmetries in the partnership arena. A study of the local politics of social inclusion in …
Austerity urbanism
This paper explores neoliberalisation and its counter-currents through a six-case study of austerity urbanism in Spain and the UK. Applying Urban Regime Theory it highlights the role of urban politics in driving, variegating and containing neoliberalism since the 2008 crash. Variegated austerity regimes contribute to strengthening neoliberalism, but with limits. Welfarism survives austerity in felicitous circumstances. And, where contentious poli…
The Limits of Joined‐up Government
Joined‐up government has featured prominently on the agenda of the New Labour government in the UK. However, the politics of joining‐up remain under‐explored, with disproportionate emphasis on the technical and managerial dimensions of the challenge. This paper argues that political value conflicts form an essential part of the explanation for the replication of ‘silos’ within city strategic partnerships, the joining‐up institution of choice at t…
Partnerships versus Regimes
This study compares and contrasts urban regeneration partnerships in the UK with urban regimes in the USA. It is argued that regime theory, as developed by Elkin and Stone, neither describes nor explains the contrasting forms of collaboration in the UK. The development of urban regeneration partnerships has been driven by a combination of two main factors: the development of an ideological perception within local government elites that urban rege…
Urban Regime Theory
Over the past 10 years, urban regime theory has become the dominant paradigm for studying urban politics in liberal democracies. Yet there is disagreement about how far it can help us to understand urban political processes. This article argues that regime theory is best understood as a theory of structuring with limits in its analysis of the market economy. These limits undermine its ability to explain the importance of political agency-the scop…
Why is austerity governable? A Gramscian urban regime analysis of Leicester, UK
Austerity has been delivered in the UK without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between urban regime theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the article considers how austerity was normalized and made governable in the city of Leicester. It shows how Leicester navigated waves of crisis, restructuring, and austerity, positioning itself as a multicultural city of entrepreneurs. The article explores historical influen…
Network Governance Theory
Influential governance theories argue that we live increasingly in a world of networks either relegating hierarchy to the shadows or dismissing it altogether. This paper develops a Gramscian critique of these currents, advancing two key arguments. First, drawing on Gramsci's concepts of hegemony and passive revolution, it reinterprets the cultivation of networks as a prominent element in the hegemonic strategies of Western neoliberalism, exemplif…
Conjuncture or disjuncture? An institutionalist analysis of local regeneration partnerships in the UK
Following Vivien Lowndes' injunction for scholars to take the new institutionalism seriously, this article offers an institutionalist explanation for the development of regeneration partnerships in the UK. Drawing on four complete case studies and evidence from ongoing research into New Deal for Communities, it argues that UK-style partnerships tend to embody conflicting values and hierarchical patterns of organization. This is therefore a path-s…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local governance. As the 'partnership of partnerships' in a locality, the ability of the LSP to provide an arena for community leadership and joined up service delivery is vital to the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. Drawing on material from the national evaluation of LSPs, this paper assesses their progress. A theory of change (ToC) approach was adopted in the ev…
Active citizenship
This article develops a distinct perspective on the continuities and contrasts between Thatcherite Conservatism and New Labour, interpreted through active citizenship policy. Revisiting Thatcherism, it argues that the roots of the New Labour approach to active citizenship can be traced to the late-Thatcher period. It explores six facets of New Labour's agenda, arguing in each case that there were affinities with Conservatism. These affinities fur…
Rethinking urban power and the local state
Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian approaches enjoy considerable influence in research on the mutations of neoliberal governance in cities. However, both are prone to treating coercion as the antithesis of power, leading them to downplay the coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards non-coercive power. The integral state rejects the power–violence dualism, depicting …
Local Governance and the Dialectics of Hierarchy, Market and Network
This article seeks to bring the study of conflict into analysis of the new institutions of urban governance. Neither the orthodox nor the sceptical literatures on the proliferation of autonomous, self-organising networks in urban governance pay sufficient attention to the role of conflict in defining the relationship between market, hierarchy and network, although they recognise that conflict occurs. Conflict is a constitutive and animating featu…
Coercive Cities
Urban theory has largely overlooked the continuing centrality of coercion in the governance \nof cities. The paper argues that urban research should take everyday coercion far more seriously \nin the next decade than it did in the previous two. It highlights seven key research questions: what kinds \nof coercive power do cities have at their disposal? In what ways are cities terrains of coercion? Who are the agents of coercion? Who are its subjec…
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain
New municipalism in Spain arose from a major political wave, now in a period of crisis and electoral retreat. This paper applies a regime-theoretic framework to analyse new municipalist governance in two smaller city cases: A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. It argues that whilst new municipalist electoral victories inaugurated a crisis for established regimes, the crucial weakness was that they did not consolidate new urban regimes. Municipali…
Interrogating urban crisis
The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna by opening up the concept of urban crisis to critical scrutiny. It begins by exploring how urban ‘crisis-talk’ tends to over-extend the concept in ways that can render it shallow or meaningless. The paper looks, second, at differe…
Network governance in Russia
The 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
Hollowing Out Neighbourhood Governance? Rescaling Revitalisation in Baltimore and Bristol
The neighbourhood has been a prominent terrain for revitalisation in recent times, and also for studies by scholars debating the significance of networked governance as the means of public service co-ordination, democratic voice or social control. This study of the governance of neighbourhoods in Baltimore and Bristol suggests that there may be a need to rethink these perspectives, as Bristol begins to converge with Baltimore on the terrain of ex…
The Hollowing-out of Local Democracy and the ‘Fatal Conceit’ of Governing without Government
Books Reviewed Stewart J (2000) The Nature of British Local Government. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-66569-4 viii + 310pp Stoker G (ed) (1999) The New Management of British Local Governance. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-72815-7 xxvi + 280pp Stoker G (ed) (2000) The New Politics of British Local Governance. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-72818-1 xvii + 294pp Introduction On 4th May 2000, Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on …
Double-Devolution or Double-Dealing? The Local Government White Paper and the Lyons Review
New Labour's third White Paper promised the revitalization of local government after ten years of control freakery. It does not, however, live up to the promise of a 'new localism'. The tenor of the paper is moralising and prescriptive, claims to a new approach belied by the government's negative response to Lyons. Proposals for reform are ambiguous, offering no guarantees against back-door centralisation. Such cause as there may be for optimism …
The Social Exclusion Debate
This article explores the UK government's approach to combating social exclusion since 1997. It considers the philosophy and political economy underpinning New Labour's approach, and explains the policy prescriptions that follow from these principles. The government's social exclusion agenda has provoked a wide range of controversies and debates in the academic and political communities and the article explores key areas of contention. The story …
Can’t Hedgehogs Be Foxes Too? Reply to Clarence N. Stone
Rebutting critiques of regime theory by me (Davies, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2003) and Imbroscio (2003), Stone defends his emphasis on the “how” of collective action against broader focus on the “why” o
From crisis to catastrophe
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event, but what became apparent almost immediately was that while the virus seems indiscriminate, vulnerability and the capacity to mitigate its impact are not spread equally, either between or within countries. Years of austere neoliberalism in Europe have exacerbated inequality and precarity, acting as a ‘pre-existing condition’ onto which the virus has now landed. The question we ask is: when the pandemic subs…
Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism
The concept of everyday making has become a powerful influence on activists and academics looking for ways to transcend neoliberalism. For everyday makers, democratic and egalitarian spaces are created in the cracks and fissures of power by deciding, in the first place, to act differently. Drawing on Marx’s theory of capital and crisis, this paper rejects the choice between everyday and systemic perspectives. The challenges today are threefold: h…
Gide's Faux-Monnayeurs
Strength and its relationship to changes in fat-free mass, total body potassium, total body water and IGF-1 in adults with growth hormone deficiency
The present investigation examined changes in strength in growth hormone deficient (GHD) adults following treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), and assessed their relationship to changes in fat-free mass (FFM), total body potassium (TBK), total body water (TBW), the concentration of TBK and TBW per kg FFM, and insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). The investigation was double-blind and placebo-controlled for a period of 6 months…
Understanding Policy Transfer
At the same time that comparative and international political scientists have been confronting the problems of analysing state behaviour under conditions of uncertainty, state‐centred political scientists are attempting, somewhat belatedly, to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty which underpins modern governance. Yet despite similar research agendas these disciplines have continued to speak past each other. This article contends t…
The Hollowing-out of Local Democracy and the ‘Fatal Conceit’ of Governing without Government
Books Reviewed Stewart J (2000) The Nature of British Local Government. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-66569-4 viii + 310pp Stoker G (ed) (1999) The New Management of British Local Governance. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-72815-7 xxvi + 280pp Stoker G (ed) (2000) The New Politics of British Local Governance. Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-72818-1 xvii + 294pp Introduction On 4th May 2000, Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on …
Urban Regime Theory
Over the past 10 years, urban regime theory has become the dominant paradigm for studying urban politics in liberal democracies. Yet there is disagreement about how far it can help us to understand urban political processes. This article argues that regime theory is best understood as a theory of structuring with limits in its analysis of the market economy. These limits undermine its ability to explain the importance of political agency-the scop…
The governance of urban regeneration
This paper offers a critique of the concept of governance as networks. Using the complementary concept of regime governance, it argues that networks are not the primary mode of governance in the politics of urban regeneration in the UK. Drawing on primary and secondary material, it is argued that Central Government is becoming more influential in the local policy arena. In the ‘mix’ of market, hierarchy and network, hierarchy is more pervasive th…
Partnerships versus Regimes
This study compares and contrasts urban regeneration partnerships in the UK with urban regimes in the USA. It is argued that regime theory, as developed by Elkin and Stone, neither describes nor explains the contrasting forms of collaboration in the UK. The development of urban regeneration partnerships has been driven by a combination of two main factors: the development of an ideological perception within local government elites that urban rege…
Somatic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors in growth hormone deficiency
The purpose of the present study was to identify the effect of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) on seven somatic characteristics and eight clinical cardiovascular risk factors. Twenty‐seven male and 24 female patients between the ages of 21 and 60 years were examined. The investigation was a double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study of 12 months duration. Patients were assigned randomly to treatment (T) and placebo (P) groups. …
Can’t Hedgehogs Be Foxes Too? Reply to Clarence N. Stone
Rebutting critiques of regime theory by me (Davies, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2003) and Imbroscio (2003), Stone defends his emphasis on the “how” of collective action against broader focus on the “why” o
The Foundation as a Political Actor
This paper examines the influence of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) on the movement for democratic reform in the UK, drawing on a study of the impact of Trust grants to three beneficiaries.The paper demonstrates that charitable foundations can exercise political influence, particularly when a political party is looking for new ideas, like the Labour Party in the early to mid 1990s.Consequently, when studying influences on public poli…
Conjuncture or disjuncture? An institutionalist analysis of local regeneration partnerships in the UK
Following Vivien Lowndes' injunction for scholars to take the new institutionalism seriously, this article offers an institutionalist explanation for the development of regeneration partnerships in the UK. Drawing on four complete case studies and evidence from ongoing research into New Deal for Communities, it argues that UK-style partnerships tend to embody conflicting values and hierarchical patterns of organization. This is therefore a path-s…
The Social Exclusion Debate
This article explores the UK government's approach to combating social exclusion since 1997. It considers the philosophy and political economy underpinning New Labour's approach, and explains the policy prescriptions that follow from these principles. The government's social exclusion agenda has provoked a wide range of controversies and debates in the academic and political communities and the article explores key areas of contention. The story …
Local Governance and the Dialectics of Hierarchy, Market and Network
This article seeks to bring the study of conflict into analysis of the new institutions of urban governance. Neither the orthodox nor the sceptical literatures on the proliferation of autonomous, self-organising networks in urban governance pay sufficient attention to the role of conflict in defining the relationship between market, hierarchy and network, although they recognise that conflict occurs. Conflict is a constitutive and animating featu…
Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
Capitalisation, Commoditisation and Obligation among Ethiopia's Afar Pastoralists
This paper on the Afar pastoralists of north-eastern Ethiopia examines their livelihood goals to understand how they view the institutions that are central to their existence. The paper examines the choices made in allocating livestock resources to accumulate different forms of capital. Using qualitative and quantitative research the paper considers the value of internal livestock exchange for accruing insurance and the impact that such value has…
Livelihood adaptation to risk
Development policies in the pastoral areas of Africa assume that pastoralists are poor. Using the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia as the focus of research this article challenges this depiction of pastoralism by exploring pastoral livelihood goals and traditional strategies for managing risk. Investment in social institutions to minimise the risk of outright destitution, sometimes at the cost of increased poverty, and significant manipulation of lo…
Double-Devolution or Double-Dealing? The Local Government White Paper and the Lyons Review
New Labour's third White Paper promised the revitalization of local government after ten years of control freakery. It does not, however, live up to the promise of a 'new localism'. The tenor of the paper is moralising and prescriptive, claims to a new approach belied by the government's negative response to Lyons. Proposals for reform are ambiguous, offering no guarantees against back-door centralisation. Such cause as there may be for optimism …
The Limits of Partnership
The challenge of enhancing the ‘democratic anchorage’ of partnerships has become a central concern in policy studies. Radical reform proposals designed to level the deliberative playing field include community veto powers and the appointment of neutral arbiters. Welcome as they would be, however, it is questionable whether such reforms would overcome power asymmetries in the partnership arena. A study of the local politics of social inclusion in …
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local governance. As the 'partnership of partnerships' in a locality, the ability of the LSP to provide an arena for community leadership and joined up service delivery is vital to the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. Drawing on material from the national evaluation of LSPs, this paper assesses their progress. A theory of change (ToC) approach was adopted in the ev…
The Limits of Joined‐up Government
Joined‐up government has featured prominently on the agenda of the New Labour government in the UK. However, the politics of joining‐up remain under‐explored, with disproportionate emphasis on the technical and managerial dimensions of the challenge. This paper argues that political value conflicts form an essential part of the explanation for the replication of ‘silos’ within city strategic partnerships, the joining‐up institution of choice at t…
Challenging Governance Theory
This topical book takes a critical look at contemporary governance theory, arguing that there are structural impediments to achieving an ideology of networks and reconsidering it from Marxist and Gramscian perspectives
The limits of post-traditional public administration
‘Celebrations of transformation abound’ in public administration (Nickel 2009 Nickel, P.M. 2009. Text, portrayal and power: a critique of the transformation of the state thesis. Journal of power, 2(3): 383–401. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], p. 383), heralding the emergence of a post-traditional discipline according analytical and normative priority to networks. This paper develops a critique of post-traditional public administrati…
Whither governance theory? Critical research beyond the networks paradigm
No abstract. Rejoinder to symposium on my monograph "Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony" published by Policy Press in 2011
Hollowing Out Neighbourhood Governance? Rescaling Revitalisation in Baltimore and Bristol
The neighbourhood has been a prominent terrain for revitalisation in recent times, and also for studies by scholars debating the significance of networked governance as the means of public service co-ordination, democratic voice or social control. This study of the governance of neighbourhoods in Baltimore and Bristol suggests that there may be a need to rethink these perspectives, as Bristol begins to converge with Baltimore on the terrain of ex…
Active citizenship
This article develops a distinct perspective on the continuities and contrasts between Thatcherite Conservatism and New Labour, interpreted through active citizenship policy. Revisiting Thatcherism, it argues that the roots of the New Labour approach to active citizenship can be traced to the late-Thatcher period. It explores six facets of New Labour's agenda, arguing in each case that there were affinities with Conservatism. These affinities fur…
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