Geographies and politics of localism: The localism of the United Kingdom's coalition government

Political Geography

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-23

  Clarke, Nick ^a   Cochrane, Allan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti politics; British politics; Localism; Spatial liberalism

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; LIBERALISM; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84878191809     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

References (114)

1. Albrow M. The global age: State and society beyond modernity 1996, Polity, Cambridge.
2. Allen J., Cochrane A. Assemblages of state power: topological shifts in the organization of government and politics. Antipode 2010, 42(5):1071-1089.
3. Allmendinger P., Haughton G. Post-political spatial planning in England: a crisis of consensus?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2012, 37:89-103.
4. Amin A. Spatialities of globalisation. Environment and Planning A 2002, 34:385-399.
5. Amin A. Local community on trial. Economy and Society 2005, 34(4):612-633.
6. Amin A., Thrift N. Cities: Reimagining the urban 2002, Polity, Cambridge.
7. Appadurai A. Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalisation 1996, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
8. Blond P. Red Tory: How left and right have broken Britain and how we can fix it 2010, Faber and Faber, London.
9. Local socialism? 1984, Macmillan, London. M. Boddy, C. Fudge (Eds.).
10. Branson N. Poplarism 1919-1925: George Lansbury and the councillors' revolt 1979, Lawrence and Wishart, London.
11. Brenner N., Theodore N. From the 'new localism' to the spaces of neoliberalism. Antipode 2002, 34(3):341-347.
12. Browne A., Persson M. The case for European localism 2011, Open Europe, London.
13. Bulpitt J. Territory and power in the United Kingdom: An interpretation 1983, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
14. Burns D., Hambleton R., Hoggett P. The politics of decentralisation: Revitalising local government 1994, Macmillan, London.
15. The Point Is To Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. N. Castree, P.A. Chatterton, N. Heynen, W. Larner, M.W. Wright (Eds.).
16. Clark G. Speech to the policy exchange 27 July 2010, http://www.communities.gov.uk.
17. Clarke N. In what sense 'spaces of neoliberalism'? The new localism, the new politics of scale, and town twinning. Political Geography 2009, 28(8):496-507.
18. Clarke N. Urban policy mobility, anti-politics, and histories of the transnational municipal movement. Progress in Human Geography 2012, 31(1):25-43.
19. Clarke A., Cochrane A. Local enterprise boards: the short history of a radical initiative. Public Administration 1990, 68(3):315-336.
20. Cochrane A. Whatever happened to local government? 1993, Open University Press, Buckingham.
21. Cochrane A. Modernisation, managerialism, and the culture wars: the reshaping of the local welfare state in England. Local Government Studies 2004, 30(4):481-496.
22. Cochrane A. Understanding urban policy. A critical approach 2007, Blackwell, Oxford.
23. Cochrane A. Making up a region: the rise and fall of the South East of England as a political territory. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2012, 31(1):95-108.
24. Cochrane A., Newman J. Community and policy-making. Community: Welfare, crime, and society 2009, 35-64. Open University Press/McGraw Hill, Maidenhead. G. Mooney, S. Neal (Eds.).
25. Cockburn C. The local state: Management of cities and people 1977, Pluto Press, London.
26. Corry D., Stoker G. New localism: Refashioning the centre-local relationship 2002, New Local Government Network, London.
27. Council of Europe European charter on local self-government 1985, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
28. Cox K.R. Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement, and the politics of scale, or: looking for local politics. Political Geography 1998, 17(1):1-23.
29. Cox K., Mair A. Locality and community in the politics of local economic development. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1988, 78(2):307-325.
30. Cox K., Mair A. From localised social structures to localities as agents. Environment and Planning A 1991, 23:197-213.
31. Cragoe M. 'We like local patriotism': the conservative party and the discourse of decentralization, 1947-51. English Historical Review 2007, 498:965-985.
32. Crick B. In defence of politics 1962, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
33. Dean M. Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society 1999, Sage, London.
34. Dearlove J. The reorganization of local government: Old orthodoxies and a political perspective 1979, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
35. Donoghue B., Jones G. Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a politician 2001, Phoenix Press, London. second ed.
36. Duncan S., Goodwin M. The local state and uneven development: Behind the local government crisis 1988, Polity, Cambridge.
37. Eaton M. Speech to the local government association 21 October 2010, http://www.lga.gov.uk.
38. Featherstone D., Ince A., MacKinnon D., Strauss K., Cumbers A. Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2012, 37:177-182.
39. Foley P., Martin S. Anew deal for the community? Public participation in regeneration and local service delivery. Policy and Politics 2000, 28(4):479-491.
40. Fraser D. Urban politics in Victorian England 1976, Leicester University Press, Leicester.
41. Garrard J. Urban elites, 1850-1914: the rule and decline of a new squirearchy?. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 1995, 27(4):583-621.
42. Geddes M. Tackling social exclusion in the European Union? The limits to the new orthodoxy of local partnership. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2000, 24(4):782-800.
43. Giddens A. The third way and its critics 2000, Polity, Cambridge.
44. Goodwin M., Painter J. Local governance, the crises of Fordism, and the changing geographies of regulation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 1996, 21(4):635-648.
45. Goodwin M., Duncan S., Halford S. Regulation theory, the local state, and the transition of urban politics. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 1993, 11:67-88.
46. Graham S., Marvin S. Splintering urbanism: Networked infrastructures, technological mobilities, and the urban condition 2001, Routledge, London.
47. Hall P. Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century 1988, Blackwell, Oxford.
48. Hambleton R. The new city management. Globalism and local democracy: Challenge and change in Europe and North America 2003, 147-168. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. R. Hambleton, H.V. Savitch, M. Stewart (Eds.).
49. Hindess B. Liberalism - what's in a name?. Global governmentality: Governing international spaces 2004, 23-39. Routledge, London. W. Larner, W. Walters (Eds.).
50. HM Government The coalition: Our programme for government 2010, Cabinet Office, London.
51. HM Government The localism bill 2010, Stationary Office, London.
52. Hunt T. Building Jerusalem: The rise and fall of the Victorian cities 2004, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
53. Imrie R., Raco M. How new is the new local governance? Lessons from the United Kingdom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 1999, 24:45-63.
54. Jenkins S. Big bang localism: A rescue plan for British democracy 2004, Policy Exchange and Localis, London.
55. John P. Local governance in Western Europe 2001, Sage, London.
56. Jones R., Pykett J., Whitehead M. Governing temptation: changing behaviour in an age of libertarian paternalism. Progress in Human Geography 2010, 35(4):483-501.
57. Kearns A. Active citizenship and local governance: political and geographical dimensions. Political Geography 1995, 14(2):155-175.
58. Keith-Lucas B., Richards P. Ahistory of local government in the twentieth century 1978, Allen and Unwin, London.
59. Rethinking local democracy 1996, Macmillan, London. D. King, G. Stoker (Eds.).
60. Kythreotis A.P. Progress in global climate change politics? Reasserting national state territoriality in a 'post-political' world. Progress in Human Geography 2012, 36(4):457-474.
61. Lake R.W. Negotiating local autonomy. Political Geography 1994, 13(5):423-442.
62. LGA Closer to people and places 2006, LGA, London.
63. LGA Briefing on the comprehensive spending review 2010, LGA, London.
64. LGA Briefing on the local government finance settlement 2010, LGA, London.
65. Lodge G., Muir R. Localism under New Labour. The Political Quarterly 2010, 81(1):96-107.
66. Logan J., Molotch H. Urban fortunes: The political economy of place 2007, University of California Press, Berkeley. second ed.
67. Lowndes V., Sullivan H. Like a horse and carriage or a fish on a bicycle: how well do local partnerships and public participation go together?. Local Government Studies 2004, 30(1):51-73.
68. Lowndes V., Sullivan H. How low can you go? Rationales and challenges for neighbourhood governance. Public Administration 2008, 86(1):53-74.
69. Macintyre S. Little Moscows: Communism and working-class militancy in inter-war Britain 1980, Croom Helm, London.
70. Mackintosh M., Wainwright H. Ataste of power: The politics of local economics 1987, Verso, London.
71. Martin S. The modernisation of UK local government: markets, managers, monitors, and mixed fortunes. Public Management Review 2002, 4(3):291-307.
72. Massey D. For space 2005, Sage, London.
73. Massey D. World city 2007, Polity, Cambridge.
74. Morgan K. The polycentric state: new spaces of empowerment and engagement?. Regional Studies 2007, 41(9):1237-1251.
75. Oosterlynck S., Swyngedouw E. Noise reduction: the postpolitical quandary of night flights at Brussels airport. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42:1577-1594.
76. Pickles E. Written ministerial statement to parliament on regional government 22 July 2010, http://www.parliament.uk.
77. Pickles E. Speech to the local government association 30 June 2011, http://www.communities.gov.uk.
78. Pickles E. Speech to the national council for voluntary organisations 1 March 2011, http://www.communities.gov.uk.
79. Pickles E. Ademocratic design for the future of Britain's communities. The Guardian 14 September 2011.
80. Pickles E. Speech to the Queen's speech forum 11 June 2011, http://www.communities.gov.uk.
81. Pickles E., Cable V. Economy needs local remedies, not regional prescription. The Financial Times 6 September 2010.
82. Pratchett L., Leach S. Local government: selectivity and diversity. Parliamentary Affairs 2003, 56:255-269.
83. Pratchett L., Leach S. Local government: choice within constraint. Parliamentary Affairs 2004, 57:366-379.
84. Pykett J., Jones R., Whitehead M., Huxley M., Strauss K., Gill N., et al. Interventions in the political geography of 'libertarian paternalism'. Political Geography 2011, 30:301-310.
85. Raco M. Assessing community participation in local economic development: lessons for the new urban policy. Political Geography 2000, 19:573-599.
86. Raco M., Lin W.-I. Urban sustainability, conflict management, and the geographies of postpoliticism: a case study of Taipei. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2012, 30:191-208.
87. Rancière J. Introducing disagreement. Angelaki 2004, 9(3):3-9.
88. Rhodes R. Control and power in central-local government relations 1981, SSRC/Gower, Farnborough.
89. Rhodes R. Continuity and change in British central-local relations: 'The Conservative threat', 1979-83. British Journal of Political Science 1984, 14(3):261-283.
90. Rhodes R. 'A squalid and politically corrupt process'? Intergovernmental relations in the post-war period. Local Government Studies 1985, 11(6):35-37.
91. Rhodes R. Beyond Westminster and Whitehall: Sub-central governments of Britain 1988, Unwin Hyman, London.
92. Ridley N. The local right: Enabling not providing 1988, Centre for Policy Studies, London.
93. Rose R. Understanding the United Kingdom: The territorial dimension in government 1982, Longmans, London.
94. Rose N. The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government. Economy and Society 1996, 25(3):327-356.
95. Rose N. Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought 1999, CUP, Cambridge.
96. The end of politics? Explorations into modern antipolitics 1997, Macmillan, Basingstoke. A. Schedler (Ed.).
97. Smith D.M. Moral geographies: Ethics in a world of difference 2000, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
98. Smith M.P. Transnational urbanism: Locating globalisation 2001, Blackwell, Oxford.
99. Local government in the 1990s 1995, Macmillan, Basingstoke. J. Stewart, G. Stoker (Eds.).
100. Stoker G. Why politics matters: Making democracy work 2006, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
101. Stoker G., Mossberger K. The post-Fordist local state: the dynamics of its development. Local government in the 1990s 1995, 210-227. Macmillan, Basingstoke. J. Stewart, G. Stoker (Eds.).
102. Swyngedouw E. The antinomies of the post-political city: in search of a democratic politics of environmental production. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2009, 33(3):601-620.
103. Swyngedouw E. Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the spectre of climate change. Theory, Culture and Society 2010, 27:213-232.
104. Swyngedouw E. Interrogating post-democratisation: reclaiming egalitarian political spaces. Political Geography 2011, 30:370-380.
105. Tiebout C. Apure theory of local expenditure. Journal of Political Economy 1956, 64(5):416-424.
106. Urry J. Sociology beyond societies: Mobilities for the twenty-first century 2000, Routledge, London.
107. Wainwright H. Reclaim the state: Experiments in popular democracy 2003, Verso, London.
108. Wainwright H., Little M. Public service reform. . .but not as we know it! A story of how democracy can make public services genuinely efficient 2009, Picnic Press, Hove.
109. Wallace A. New neighbourhoods, new citizens? Challenging 'community' as a framework for social and moral regeneration under New Labour in the UK. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2010, 34(4):805-819.
110. Walters W. Some critical notes on 'governance'. Studies in Political Economy 2004, 73:27-46.
111. Weiler G. Logos against Leviathan: the Hobbesian origins of modern anti-politics. The end of politics? Explorations into modern anti-politics 1997, 40-56. Macmillan, Basingstoke. A. Schedler (Ed.).
112. Networks in the global village: Life in contemporary communities 1999, Westview, Boulder. B. Wellman (Ed.).
113. Wills J. The geography of community and political organisation in London today. Political Geography 2012, 31:114-126.
114. Wilson D. Local government: balancing diversity and uniformity. Parliamentary Affairs 2001, 54:289-307.