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 ...
This entry comprises the preliminaries and introduction to my book, to be published by Policy Press in September 2011, titled Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony. The following text appears on the back ...
Urban theory has largely overlooked the continuing centrality of coercion in the governance
of cities. The paper argues that urban research should take everyday coercion far more seriously
in the next decade than it did ...
Following Lowndes' (2001) injunction for scholars to take the new institutionalism seriously, this paper offers an institutionalist explanation for the development of regeneration partnerships in the UK. Drawing on four ...
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’ (Stoker and Wilson, 2004). The tenor of ...
This article explores the impact of recent trends towards privatism through a study of neighbourhood governance in Baltimore and Bristol and considers its
implications for the big society in the UK. The self-help ideology ...
Introduction: Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local Governance (Aulakh et al, 2002; Hastings, 2003). Their role is crucial to the success of a number of other government policies ...
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 ...
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 ...
This report, mainly for non-academic users, summarises the interim conclusions from our ESRC study of austerity governance in eight cities. It also provides an overview of the eight case study cities: Athens, Baltimore, ...
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 ...
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 ...