Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-national Perspectives and Speculations
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: In recent years the ‘shift from local government to local governance’ has apparently become a pervasive phenomenon across the advanced world and beyond. This shift is frequently associated with the tendential convergence of policy paradigms around neoliberal principles. The article draws on cross-national research and other evidence from the UK, the EU and other countries to argue that the shift towards local governance, and the prominent emergence of institutions such as local partnerships, is indeed a pervasive phenomenon but one which is taking place to different degrees, at different speeds, and in somewhat different ways. The article draws on the welfare regimes literature to help explain such differences.
Source: Policy Studies
Author: Mike Geddes
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2108217859