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  • Coping with the Cuts? The Management of the Worst Financial Settlement in Living Memory

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    Author(s)
    Hastings, Annette
    Bailey, Nick
    Gannon, Maria
    Besemer, Kirsten
    Bramley, Glen
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Besemer, Kirsten L.
    Year published
    2015
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    The scale of the cuts to local government finance, coupled with increasing demand for services, has led to unprecedented ‘budget gaps’ in council budgets. Arguably, two competing narratives of the trajectory of local government have emerged in which contrasting futures are imagined for the sector – a positive story of adaptation and survival and more negative one of residualisation and marginalisation. Drawing on case study evidence from three English local authorities, the paper distinguishes and provides examples of three strategic approaches to managing austerity – efficiency, retrenchment and investment. It demonstrates ...
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    The scale of the cuts to local government finance, coupled with increasing demand for services, has led to unprecedented ‘budget gaps’ in council budgets. Arguably, two competing narratives of the trajectory of local government have emerged in which contrasting futures are imagined for the sector – a positive story of adaptation and survival and more negative one of residualisation and marginalisation. Drawing on case study evidence from three English local authorities, the paper distinguishes and provides examples of three strategic approaches to managing austerity – efficiency, retrenchment and investment. It demonstrates how and why the balance of these strategies has shifted between the early and later phases of austerity and considers the extent to which the evidence of the case studies provide support for either the survival or marginalisation narrative. The paper concludes by arguing that a third narrative – responsibilisation – captures more fully the trajectory of local government in England.
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    Journal Title
    Local Government Studies
    Volume
    41
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2015.1036987
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Local Government Studies on 29 Apr 2015, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/03003930.2015.1036987
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    Urban and regional planning
    Urban and regional planning not elsewhere classified
    Applied economics
    Political science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/173117
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