Andy Pike

Financialization and Local Statecraft

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which local governments in England reacted to the UK government's austerity measures after the 2008 crash. Andy Pike examines how local statecrafters act in a variety of realms, and questions the sustainability and resilience of the local state in the longer term.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780192856661
• ISBN-10: 0192856669
• Artikelnr.: 68051557

Autorenporträt

Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University. His research interests, publications, and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional, and urban development, governance, and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, European Commission, UK government, and national, regional, and local institutions. He is a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association and an Academician of the UK's national Academy of Social Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Councillors at the casino: The local public services gamble in
financialized times?
* 2: Financialization and local statecraft
* 3: Funding and financing local government in England
* 4: Local government financial strategies amidst austerity,
centralization, and risk
* 5: Advising financialization? External actors in local statecraft
* 6: The local statecraft of borrowing and debt management
* 7: In-area and out-of-area statecraft
* 8: Conclusions: The differentiated landscape of financialization and
local statecraft
* References
* Index