TY - CHAP
T1 - The urban governance of austerity in Europe
AU - Cortina-Oriol, Mercè
AU - Bua, Adrian
AU - Davies, Jonathan
AU - Blanco, Ismael
AU - Chorianopoulos, Ioannis
AU - Feandeiro, Andrés
AU - Gaynor, Niamh
AU - Griggs, Steven
AU - Howarth, David
AU - Salazar, Yuni
N1 - We are very grateful to the UK Economic and Social Research Council for funding the research discussed in this paper: Collaborative Governance under Austerity: An Eight-case Comparative Study (Ref: ES/L012898/1), led by Professor Jonathan Davies. See http://cura.our.dmu.ac.uk/category/austerity-governance.
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - 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 ‘collaborative’ and ʼnetwork’ forms of governance. Advocates argue that these comprise an epochal shift that resolves many pitfalls of state and market oriented governance, a consensus that was especially popular during the 1990s and early 2000s. This chapter reports research carried out in five cities in Europe (Athens, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Nantes) exploring the impact of austerity politics on the ideology and practice of collaborative governance - would it endure, or be unravelled by, post-crash exposure to austerity and distributional conflict? The chapter concludes that severe austerity erodes the foundations for strong collaborative governance. The inability to survive the return of distributional conflict leads us to conclude that collaborative governance is fully functional only in times of growth.
AB - 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 ‘collaborative’ and ʼnetwork’ forms of governance. Advocates argue that these comprise an epochal shift that resolves many pitfalls of state and market oriented governance, a consensus that was especially popular during the 1990s and early 2000s. This chapter reports research carried out in five cities in Europe (Athens, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Nantes) exploring the impact of austerity politics on the ideology and practice of collaborative governance - would it endure, or be unravelled by, post-crash exposure to austerity and distributional conflict? The chapter concludes that severe austerity erodes the foundations for strong collaborative governance. The inability to survive the return of distributional conflict leads us to conclude that collaborative governance is fully functional only in times of growth.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065155922&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315306278-19
DO - 10.4324/9781315306278-19
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85065155922
SN - 9781138234727
SP - 280
EP - 295
BT - The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government
PB - Taylor and Francis AS
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