Mike Geddes
Biographic Data
| ID | 380667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Geddes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Geddes |
| SIGNATURE | GEDDES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy
This chapter is based on a research paper written for the Commission for Local Democracy, and focuses on research on Local Strategies to Combat Poverty on Peripheral Estates funded by the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. It outlines the growth of poverty and social exclusion in the UK. The chapter reviews the implications for the political participation of disadvantaged groups of a number of policy approaches to local concentrations of pove…
The old is dying but the new is struggling to be born: Hegemonic contestation in Bolivia
In Bolivia, 2005 saw the election of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government headed by Evo Morales, inaugurating a radical program contesting neoliberalism and the long history of colonialism and neocolonialism in the country. Critics however have questioned the extent to which the Morales government has broken from neoliberalism, and how far its radical rhetoric is reflected in substantive change. What makes Bolivia particularly interest…
Neoliberalism and local governance: Radical developments in Latin America
In parts of Latin America, new developments in, and struggles over, governance at the local level have emerged as part of political and policy paradigms which to a greater or lesser degree reject neoliberalism. They can be found in a range of contexts, take a variety of different forms, and have experienced differing outcomes. This article critically explores a number of these developments. It argues that, both practically and conceptually, these…
Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union: New Forms of Local Social Governance?
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth, cross-national research from areas across Europe it provides a uniquely authoritative account of the complexities of policy development in the EU, and…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000 ‐ by Trevizo, Dolores
Localities, leadership and neoliberalization: Conflicting discourses, competing practices
This article foregrounds leadership, specifically 'local political leadership' as a neglected but significant element of local governance and neoliberalization. Drawing on distinct literatures – on neoliberalism, leadership and governance – we offer an analysis of the key theories influencing academic, policy and political prescriptions for local political leadership. We then consider how local leadership manifests itself in divergent local conte…
Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy – By Hilary Wainwright
Debate: Neoliberalism and local governance: global contrasts and research priorities
Today, neoliberalism has become a key reference point for many critical analyses of contemporary local governance. Of course, there remain the occasional ‘neoliberalism deniers’ who claim to find a lack of coherence in the concept, and perhaps rather more who give a cursory nod to neoliberalism without really engaging substantively. But for many others neoliberalism (or, better, the process of neoliberalisation) provides a conceptual foundation f…
Building and Contesting Neoliberalism at the Local Level: Reflections on the Symposium and on Recent Experience in Bolivia
This final article first reflects on the previous articles in the symposium, positioning the diverse trajectories of local governance which they exhibit in relation to two contrasting ideal types — the one neoliberal, the other contesting neoliberalism from a progressive, left perspective. Differences between these ideal types, and among the actually existing patterns of local governance discussed in the symposium (in relation to their economic a…
Local Governance and Participation under Neoliberalism: Comparative Perspectives
Two broad and interlinking themes have dominated much of the recent literature on local governance1 and participation: the dynamics, spatialities and temporalities of the ‘neoliberalization’ of local governance; and the relationship between local governance and democracy, especially the ‘meanings, potentials and pitfalls of “participation” ’ (Melo and Baiocchi, 2006: 596). Taking the latter first, Beaumont and Nicholls (2008) in identifying new r…
Urban Governance Under Neoliberalism: New Labour and the Restructuring of State‐Space
In the UK there has been a proliferation of agencies at differing regulatory scales as part of the rescaling and restructuring of the state by New Labour, following the neoliberal policies of previous Conservative governments. This raises questions concerning the extent to which New Labour's urban state restructuring is embedded within neoliberalism, and the local tensions and contradictions arising from emergent New Labour urban state restructur…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships: Theory and practice of change
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…
Partnership and the Limits to Local Governance in England: Institutionalist Analysis and Neoliberalism
There is much debate about the shift from a pattern of traditional local government to one of local governance, and about the impact of such a tendency on the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This article argues that it is necessary in exploring such issues to bring together contributions informed by new institutionalist perspectives with others concerned with the political economy of neoliberalism. Partnerships are widely seen…
Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared
Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared. Edited by Christopher K. Ansell and Guiseppe di Palma. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 316p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. This interesting and thought-provoking book, based on a cross-national research project involving both U.S. and European scholars, provides a sustained meditation on the “restructuring of territoriality” in both the United States and the European U…
Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-National Perspectives and Speculations
In recent years the 'shift from local government to local governance' has apparently become a pervasive phenomenon across the advanced world and beyond. This shift is frequently associated with the tendential convergence of policy paradigms around neoliberal principles. The article draws on cross-national research and other evidence from the UK, the EU and other countries to argue that the shift towards local governance, and the prominent emergen…
What about the workers? Best Value, employment and work in local public services
English Drawing on concepts about contemporary change in the labour process, including the various dimensions of ‘flexibility’, work intensification and the ‘new managerialism’, the article discusses the emerging impact of Best Value on employment and work in local public services, including comparison with the impact of the previous compulsory competitive tendering regime. It argues that Best Value is likely to lead to a reduction in local publi…
Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership
This article is based on recent transnational research on partnership‐based initiatives to promote local development and regeneration and combat social exclusion in the EU. The increasing reliance on partnership as the basis for local policy initiatives is first situated in the context of contemporary debates about social exclusion. The main part of the article then draws on the literatures on local governance and urban regime theory to examine t…
The policy and politics of Best Value: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents in the New Regime
This article offers an analysis of the policy and politics of Best Value. We first examine some of the inherent tensions which exist within the New Labour regime for local public services, the reasons for these and the ways in which they reflect paradoxes within the wider 'modernisation agenda' being pursued by New Labour. We then analyse approaches to implementing the Best Value framework at local level, highlighting four key emphases that we be…
Shorter Reviews
US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment The technological reshaping of metropolitan America Vieillard‐Baron, Hervé Les banlieues françaises: ou le ghetto impossible and Stewart, Murray and Marilyn Taylor Empowerment and estate regeneration: a critical review Schneider, Robert A. The ceremonial city: Toulouse observed, 1738‐1780 Gardezi, Hassan N. The political economy of international labour migration
The capitalist state and the local economy: Restructuring for Labour' and Beyond
The first half of the 1980s saw the development by a number of Left Labour local authorities of radical local economic strategies aimed at 'restructuring for labour' rather than for capital. But while these strategies often reflected a quite sophisticated marxist-based analysis of capital, their failure to develop an adequate critique of the State has meant that the debate about local economic policy has remained largely in a Left Keynesian parad…
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective
Urban Governance Under Neoliberalism: New Labour and the Restructuring of State‐Space
In the UK there has been a proliferation of agencies at differing regulatory scales as part of the rescaling and restructuring of the state by New Labour, following the neoliberal policies of previous Conservative governments. This raises questions concerning the extent to which New Labour's urban state restructuring is embedded within neoliberalism, and the local tensions and contradictions arising from emergent New Labour urban state restructur…
Partnership and the Limits to Local Governance in England: Institutionalist Analysis and Neoliberalism
There is much debate about the shift from a pattern of traditional local government to one of local governance, and about the impact of such a tendency on the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This article argues that it is necessary in exploring such issues to bring together contributions informed by new institutionalist perspectives with others concerned with the political economy of neoliberalism. Partnerships are widely seen…
Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership
This article is based on recent transnational research on partnership‐based initiatives to promote local development and regeneration and combat social exclusion in the EU. The increasing reliance on partnership as the basis for local policy initiatives is first situated in the context of contemporary debates about social exclusion. The main part of the article then draws on the literatures on local governance and urban regime theory to examine t…
Local Governance and Participation under Neoliberalism: Comparative Perspectives
Two broad and interlinking themes have dominated much of the recent literature on local governance1 and participation: the dynamics, spatialities and temporalities of the ‘neoliberalization’ of local governance; and the relationship between local governance and democracy, especially the ‘meanings, potentials and pitfalls of “participation” ’ (Melo and Baiocchi, 2006: 596). Taking the latter first, Beaumont and Nicholls (2008) in identifying new r…
The policy and politics of Best Value: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents in the New Regime
This article offers an analysis of the policy and politics of Best Value. We first examine some of the inherent tensions which exist within the New Labour regime for local public services, the reasons for these and the ways in which they reflect paradoxes within the wider 'modernisation agenda' being pursued by New Labour. We then analyse approaches to implementing the Best Value framework at local level, highlighting four key emphases that we be…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships: Theory and practice of change
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…
Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-National Perspectives and Speculations
In recent years the 'shift from local government to local governance' has apparently become a pervasive phenomenon across the advanced world and beyond. This shift is frequently associated with the tendential convergence of policy paradigms around neoliberal principles. The article draws on cross-national research and other evidence from the UK, the EU and other countries to argue that the shift towards local governance, and the prominent emergen…
Localities, leadership and neoliberalization: Conflicting discourses, competing practices
This article foregrounds leadership, specifically 'local political leadership' as a neglected but significant element of local governance and neoliberalization. Drawing on distinct literatures – on neoliberalism, leadership and governance – we offer an analysis of the key theories influencing academic, policy and political prescriptions for local political leadership. We then consider how local leadership manifests itself in divergent local conte…
Neoliberalism and local governance: Radical developments in Latin America
In parts of Latin America, new developments in, and struggles over, governance at the local level have emerged as part of political and policy paradigms which to a greater or lesser degree reject neoliberalism. They can be found in a range of contexts, take a variety of different forms, and have experienced differing outcomes. This article critically explores a number of these developments. It argues that, both practically and conceptually, these…
Debate: Neoliberalism and local governance: global contrasts and research priorities
Today, neoliberalism has become a key reference point for many critical analyses of contemporary local governance. Of course, there remain the occasional ‘neoliberalism deniers’ who claim to find a lack of coherence in the concept, and perhaps rather more who give a cursory nod to neoliberalism without really engaging substantively. But for many others neoliberalism (or, better, the process of neoliberalisation) provides a conceptual foundation f…
Building and Contesting Neoliberalism at the Local Level: Reflections on the Symposium and on Recent Experience in Bolivia
This final article first reflects on the previous articles in the symposium, positioning the diverse trajectories of local governance which they exhibit in relation to two contrasting ideal types — the one neoliberal, the other contesting neoliberalism from a progressive, left perspective. Differences between these ideal types, and among the actually existing patterns of local governance discussed in the symposium (in relation to their economic a…
What about the workers? Best Value, employment and work in local public services
English Drawing on concepts about contemporary change in the labour process, including the various dimensions of ‘flexibility’, work intensification and the ‘new managerialism’, the article discusses the emerging impact of Best Value on employment and work in local public services, including comparison with the impact of the previous compulsory competitive tendering regime. It argues that Best Value is likely to lead to a reduction in local publi…
The capitalist state and the local economy: Restructuring for Labour' and Beyond
The first half of the 1980s saw the development by a number of Left Labour local authorities of radical local economic strategies aimed at 'restructuring for labour' rather than for capital. But while these strategies often reflected a quite sophisticated marxist-based analysis of capital, their failure to develop an adequate critique of the State has meant that the debate about local economic policy has remained largely in a Left Keynesian parad…
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective
The old is dying but the new is struggling to be born: Hegemonic contestation in Bolivia
In Bolivia, 2005 saw the election of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government headed by Evo Morales, inaugurating a radical program contesting neoliberalism and the long history of colonialism and neocolonialism in the country. Critics however have questioned the extent to which the Morales government has broken from neoliberalism, and how far its radical rhetoric is reflected in substantive change. What makes Bolivia particularly interest…
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective
The capitalist state and the local economy: Restructuring for Labour' and Beyond
The first half of the 1980s saw the development by a number of Left Labour local authorities of radical local economic strategies aimed at 'restructuring for labour' rather than for capital. But while these strategies often reflected a quite sophisticated marxist-based analysis of capital, their failure to develop an adequate critique of the State has meant that the debate about local economic policy has remained largely in a Left Keynesian parad…
Shorter Reviews
US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment The technological reshaping of metropolitan America Vieillard‐Baron, Hervé Les banlieues françaises: ou le ghetto impossible and Stewart, Murray and Marilyn Taylor Empowerment and estate regeneration: a critical review Schneider, Robert A. The ceremonial city: Toulouse observed, 1738‐1780 Gardezi, Hassan N. The political economy of international labour migration
Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership
This article is based on recent transnational research on partnership‐based initiatives to promote local development and regeneration and combat social exclusion in the EU. The increasing reliance on partnership as the basis for local policy initiatives is first situated in the context of contemporary debates about social exclusion. The main part of the article then draws on the literatures on local governance and urban regime theory to examine t…
The policy and politics of Best Value: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents in the New Regime
This article offers an analysis of the policy and politics of Best Value. We first examine some of the inherent tensions which exist within the New Labour regime for local public services, the reasons for these and the ways in which they reflect paradoxes within the wider 'modernisation agenda' being pursued by New Labour. We then analyse approaches to implementing the Best Value framework at local level, highlighting four key emphases that we be…
What about the workers? Best Value, employment and work in local public services
English Drawing on concepts about contemporary change in the labour process, including the various dimensions of ‘flexibility’, work intensification and the ‘new managerialism’, the article discusses the emerging impact of Best Value on employment and work in local public services, including comparison with the impact of the previous compulsory competitive tendering regime. It argues that Best Value is likely to lead to a reduction in local publi…
Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared
Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared. Edited by Christopher K. Ansell and Guiseppe di Palma. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 316p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. This interesting and thought-provoking book, based on a cross-national research project involving both U.S. and European scholars, provides a sustained meditation on the “restructuring of territoriality” in both the United States and the European U…
Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-National Perspectives and Speculations
In recent years the 'shift from local government to local governance' has apparently become a pervasive phenomenon across the advanced world and beyond. This shift is frequently associated with the tendential convergence of policy paradigms around neoliberal principles. The article draws on cross-national research and other evidence from the UK, the EU and other countries to argue that the shift towards local governance, and the prominent emergen…
Partnership and the Limits to Local Governance in England: Institutionalist Analysis and Neoliberalism
There is much debate about the shift from a pattern of traditional local government to one of local governance, and about the impact of such a tendency on the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This article argues that it is necessary in exploring such issues to bring together contributions informed by new institutionalist perspectives with others concerned with the political economy of neoliberalism. Partnerships are widely seen…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships: Theory and practice of change
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…
Urban Governance Under Neoliberalism: New Labour and the Restructuring of State‐Space
In the UK there has been a proliferation of agencies at differing regulatory scales as part of the rescaling and restructuring of the state by New Labour, following the neoliberal policies of previous Conservative governments. This raises questions concerning the extent to which New Labour's urban state restructuring is embedded within neoliberalism, and the local tensions and contradictions arising from emergent New Labour urban state restructur…
Building and Contesting Neoliberalism at the Local Level: Reflections on the Symposium and on Recent Experience in Bolivia
This final article first reflects on the previous articles in the symposium, positioning the diverse trajectories of local governance which they exhibit in relation to two contrasting ideal types — the one neoliberal, the other contesting neoliberalism from a progressive, left perspective. Differences between these ideal types, and among the actually existing patterns of local governance discussed in the symposium (in relation to their economic a…
Local Governance and Participation under Neoliberalism: Comparative Perspectives
Two broad and interlinking themes have dominated much of the recent literature on local governance1 and participation: the dynamics, spatialities and temporalities of the ‘neoliberalization’ of local governance; and the relationship between local governance and democracy, especially the ‘meanings, potentials and pitfalls of “participation” ’ (Melo and Baiocchi, 2006: 596). Taking the latter first, Beaumont and Nicholls (2008) in identifying new r…
Localities, leadership and neoliberalization: Conflicting discourses, competing practices
This article foregrounds leadership, specifically 'local political leadership' as a neglected but significant element of local governance and neoliberalization. Drawing on distinct literatures – on neoliberalism, leadership and governance – we offer an analysis of the key theories influencing academic, policy and political prescriptions for local political leadership. We then consider how local leadership manifests itself in divergent local conte…
Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy – By Hilary Wainwright
Debate: Neoliberalism and local governance: global contrasts and research priorities
Today, neoliberalism has become a key reference point for many critical analyses of contemporary local governance. Of course, there remain the occasional ‘neoliberalism deniers’ who claim to find a lack of coherence in the concept, and perhaps rather more who give a cursory nod to neoliberalism without really engaging substantively. But for many others neoliberalism (or, better, the process of neoliberalisation) provides a conceptual foundation f…
Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union: New Forms of Local Social Governance?
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth, cross-national research from areas across Europe it provides a uniquely authoritative account of the complexities of policy development in the EU, and…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000 ‐ by Trevizo, Dolores
The old is dying but the new is struggling to be born: Hegemonic contestation in Bolivia
In Bolivia, 2005 saw the election of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government headed by Evo Morales, inaugurating a radical program contesting neoliberalism and the long history of colonialism and neocolonialism in the country. Critics however have questioned the extent to which the Morales government has broken from neoliberalism, and how far its radical rhetoric is reflected in substantive change. What makes Bolivia particularly interest…
Neoliberalism and local governance: Radical developments in Latin America
In parts of Latin America, new developments in, and struggles over, governance at the local level have emerged as part of political and policy paradigms which to a greater or lesser degree reject neoliberalism. They can be found in a range of contexts, take a variety of different forms, and have experienced differing outcomes. This article critically explores a number of these developments. It argues that, both practically and conceptually, these…
Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy
This chapter is based on a research paper written for the Commission for Local Democracy, and focuses on research on Local Strategies to Combat Poverty on Peripheral Estates funded by the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. It outlines the growth of poverty and social exclusion in the UK. The chapter reviews the implications for the political participation of disadvantaged groups of a number of policy approaches to local concentrations of pove…
Political science (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Management (13 works) · Corporate governance (12 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works)