Local government in Europe
Retrenchment, restructuring and British exceptionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8041596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Clark (0000-0002-1090-2361, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 134-163 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402389708425208 |
| OpenAlex | W1986107653 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 66 |
This article compares the strategy of British governments towards elected local government following the onset of fiscal stress in the mid‐1970s with those of two other western European countries with a unitary system of government: France and Sweden. The conclusion reached is that, notwithstanding different national configurations of central‐local government relations and the distinctiveness of the British strategy, there are similar policy and institutional outcomes in each case. In so far as such outcomes are taking place irrespective of the party political or ideological complexion of governments, they are consistent with a neo‐Fordist interpretation of local government restructuring
Austerity · Devolution (biology · Economics · Exceptionalism · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Local government · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Retrenchment · Sociology · Unitary state · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Bureaucracy in the Modern State
The Politics of Decentralisation
The transition to post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian workfare state
From old public administration to new public management
Public administration at the crossroads
Public Goods and Private Operators in France
La difficile émergence du contrôle de gestion territorial
L'action publique urbaine moderniste
Central and Local Government Relations
Dismantling the Welfare State?
Les politiques publiques entre secteurs et territoires
Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?
Fordism and Flexibility
The Politics of Economic Development
Organized Capital and Local Politics
Another Century for Local Democracy? Decentralization, Deregulation and Participation in Scandinavia in Times of European Integration
La réforme administrative en Suède
Understanding Change in the NHS
Renewal of the Public Sector in Sweden
Reinventing Local Government? Some Evidence Assessed
New Modes of Control in the Public Service
The Social Democratic Model in Sweden
Reforming the Nordic Welfare Communes
Territory and power in the United Kingdom
The Changing Territorial Operating Code of the United Kingdom
Towards the integrated and fragmented state
The ‘Swedish model’ and public sector reform
The French model of urban services
France
Citizenship, Consumerism and Local Government in Sweden
New Managerialism” in Swedish Local Government
The Twilight of the Scandinavian Model
Partnership or Privatisation? The political economy of local economic restructuring
Decentralisation and Control
A New Management in the Public Sector
Central‐local government relations in the 1980s and 1990s
The French decentralisation ten years on
Recent trends in the relationship between politics and administration in local government
Regulation theory and local government1
France in Search of a New Administrative Order
The Decline of the Swedish Model
Steering at a Distance
The Crisis of the Swedish Social Democrats and the Future of the Universal Welfare State
Decentralization in France
Decentralisation in France
Unblocking Society by Decree
New Developments in the Regional Structure of Government Departments
The Globalization of Public Services Production
Regulation Theory, the Local State, and the Transition of Urban Politics
L'Etat et la gestion publique territoriale
The capitalist state and the local economy
Swedish Local Government
Le modèle du «manager». L'imposition d'une figure légitime parmi les hauts fonctionnaires des collectivités locales
Le préfet et ses notables
De l'administration républicaine au gouvernement urbain
A New Era for Social Policy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |