Crisis and compliance
The Liverpool Non-Discrimination Notice, 1989-1994
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3630886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Moore (0000-0003-1818-2271, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 581-602 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.1994.9976455 |
| OpenAlex | W2183027402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Liverpool is one of a small group of local authorities to have been served Non‐Discrimination Notices by the Commission for Racial Equality. Court action was twice threatened before the City Council complied to the Commission's satisfaction. This article describes Liverpool's response to the Notice and explains it in terms of the special combination of political and administrative conditions in the city from 1989 to 1994, combined with a low priority afforded to race relations issues in the city throughout the 1980s. ‘Race’ issues had been subcontracted to a special unit and were never treated as central to the City Council's responsibilities. The Notice itself was resented and the basis for its imposition never fully accepted in the city, even though earlier research had established beyond doubt that the Council's housing allocation policies were having discriminatory outcomes. Conflict between the political leadership and senior managers in the 1980s had created defensive attitudes and the routinisation of practices which were only slowly changed through the re‐organisation of the City Council's administrative structures in the 1990s. The analysis underlines the difficulty of enforcing Non‐Discrimination Notices when an administration lacks the means and, or, the will to comply
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2018 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |