The Risk of Austerity Co-production in City-regional Governance in England

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4954166
AutoresBeth Perry (0000-0002-4335-1869, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas555-571
Fecha de publicación2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.13010
OpenAlexW3133770473
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas55

This article examines the risk of what we term 'austerity co-production', a weak form of collaborative governance shaped by resource scarcity and fragmented, multiple forms of expertise. Despite the hope that co-production has radical potential to solve governance challenges across city-regions, not enough attention has been paid to the institutional contexts in which co-production is developed. We argue this institutional context is crucial in shaping how co-production comes to ground and the conditions it reproduces. We draw on a critical case study of metropolitan policymaking in Greater Manchester, England, to examine the gap between imagined and actual institutional contexts for co-production. We develop a framework that can be applied in different policy areas to assess the potential implementation of co-production in city-regional governance. Whilst the promise of co-production remains, we conclude that austerity co-production risks operating as an already-existing default solution to urban problems that constrains more innovative approaches to the governance and politics of the city-region

Austerity · Business · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scarcity · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance · Finance