• Regulating the regulators: the rise of the United Kingdom Professional Standards Authority 

  Allsop, Judith; ; Jones, Kathryn L. (Book chapter)
• Participatory-deliberative processes and public policy agendas: lessons for policy and practice 

  Bua, Adrian ; Escobar, Oliver (Article)

  Participatory and deliberative processes have proliferated over recent decades in public administration. These seek to increase the effectiveness and democratic quality of policy making by involving citizens in policy. ...
• The Urban Governance of Austerity in Europe 

  Bua, Adrian ; Davies, Jonathan S. ; Cortina-Oriol, M. ; Blanco, I. ; Chorianopoulos, I. ; Feandeiro, A. ; Gaynor, N. ; Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, D. ; Salazar, Y (Book chapter)

  The 2008 financial crash and ensuing austerity have brought critical perspectives on political economy into academic debates in democratic theory and public administration. One important area of contention regards ...
• Local Government 

  Copus, Colin (Book chapter)

  There are just over 20,000 councillors across England, Scotland and Wales and, in 2016, some 85 per cent of them come from one of the three main, UK-wide national political parties: Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat. ...
• Why is Austerity Governable? A Gramscian Urban Regime Analysis of Leicester, UK 

  Davies, Jonathan S. ; Bua, Adrian ; Thompson, Ed ; Cortina-Oriol, M. (Article)

  Austerity has been delivered in the UK, without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between Urban Regime Theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the paper considers how austerity was normalised ...
• The European End Street Homelessness Campaign: Leicester City Report 

  Richardson, Joanna (Technical Report)
• Panel 42 Conference Proceedings: Urban securitisation and the need for humanising alternatives 

  Guarneros-Meza, Valeria ; Barker, Anna ; Lombard, Melanie (Conference)

  This documents presents the proceedings of the panel entitled ' Urban securitisation and the need for humanising alternatives', organised at the RC21 Conference in Leeds 2017. The panel aimed to explore humanising alternatives ...
• Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis With the Young Marx (and Friends) 

  Whitham, Ben (Article)

  We stand at a key juncture: a Western political crisis arose in 2016-17 to match the deep eco-nomic crisis of the preceding decade. Events and new social movements of recent years seem to hail the collapse of the project ...
• The Jewel of the Crown: Co-optative capacity during austerity in Cardiff and San Sebastian-Donostia 

  Guarneros-Meza, Valeria ; Telleria, Imanol ; Blas, Asier ; Pill, Madeleine (Conference)

  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 ...
• The Airports Commission, Depoliticisation and the Third Runway at Heathrow Airport 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David (Book chapter)
• Metagovernance of Austerity, Local Councils and Practices of Depoliticisation 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David ; Mackillop, Eleanor (Book chapter)
• Book Review: Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina: The Case of the Automobile Industry, 1990-2007 by Agustín Santella 

  Fishwick, Adam (Article)
• Connecting the Diversity of Working-Class Survival, Disruption and Creation 

  Fishwick, Adam ; Connolly, Heather (Book chapter)
• Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Confronting the Return of Austerity in Argentina? 

  Fishwick, Adam (Book chapter)
• Working-Class Resistance in Hard Times: An Introduction 

  Fishwick, Adam ; Connolly, Heather (Book chapter)
• Austerity and Working-Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times 

  Fishwick, Adam ; Connolly, Heather (Book)
• The Brexit Referendum: Testing the Support of Elites and their Allies for Democracy; or, Racists, Bigots and Xenophobes, Oh My! 

  Copus, Colin (Article)

  The referendum on the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the European Union was the largest exercise in mass public democracy in political history. Yet, the result of that referendum has seen a sustained campaign by ...
• Conflict Sites in a Time of Crisis: Negotiating a space and place for Gypsies and Travellers 

  Richardson, Joanna (Book chapter)
• HOW HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECTED THE INSTITUTIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE TRADITIONAL REPRESENTATIVE PRACTICES OF COUNCILLORS? 

  Scullion, Jane (Thesis)

  The thesis explores changes in local democracy through an analysis of the challenges for councillors created by the growing phenomenon of social media. New platforms for online dialogue such as Twitter and Facebook offer ...
• Decentralisation, Democratisation and Delivery: English Sub-municipal Devolution 

  Colin Copus ; Copus, Colin (Book chapter)

  Local Government in England has long experiment with decentralisation and devolution within its own territorial boundaries. Those experiments have partly been driven by political values that favour passing functions and ...

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