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 ...
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 ...
By comparing Cardiff and San Sebastián-Donostia (SSD), the paper argues that local governments’ capacity to co-opt provides a relevant approach to understanding changes in citizen participation under fiscal austerity. The ...
forms is exacerbated by the downscaling and offloading of austerity politics.
Conceptualising hybridity as a process which operates across governmental scales, at
the organisational and at the individual level helps ...