Pill, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9434-1425 and Guarneros-Meza, V. (2019) The everyday local state? Opening up and closing down informality in local governance. Local Government Studies, 46 (4). pp. 542-563. ISSN 0300-3930
Abstract
Seeking to understand local governance under austerity localism raises questions about changing state-civil society relations. Polarised debates have resulted in different disciplines that can be bridged by considering the practice. We use the case of Cardiff, Wales, to consider how the practice is reshaping local governance, focusing on community service delivery and the role of the Council and of third sector organisations in creating new ways of coping, doing and working together and apart. Drawing from understandings of informality as a top-down as well as bottom-up process, we argue that both sides of (local) state-society relations got better at opening up informality and navigating its contradictions as austerity localism rolled out, underlining the mutually constitutive nature of the ‘everyday local state’. But over time we find that the ongoing strictures of funding cuts have closed down informality, constraining the creativity engendered, as the local state centralises in response.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Local Government Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Local governance; austerity; localism; practice; informality |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Spanish Government National R&D Plan, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness CSO2012-32817 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2020 12:36 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2021 17:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03003930.2019.1624256 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156466 |