The geo‐constitution and responses to austerity: Institutional entrepreneurship, switching, and re‐scaling in the United Kingdom
dc.contributor.author | Wills, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-28T10:02:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-04-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | A nation's geo‐constitution – its spatially uneven political institutions – plays a critical role in mediating change. This paper explores this in relation to local government responses to austerity. The paper presents original research collected in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to highlight the scale and impact of asset transfers to town and parish councils. This degree of institutional switching was possible because of a willingness to use legacy constitutional institutions to mediate the trajectory and impact of reform in response to austerity. Town and parish councils have taken on important assets (public toilets, parks, and libraries) and raised local taxation to pay for them. This has reconfigured relationships between local government institutions while also incentivising innovation in service organisation. The research highlights the role of political institutions and their personnel in mediating responses to austerity, as well as raising broader questions about the rescaling of the social contract, and the scope for further constitutional reform. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 7 April 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/tran.12387 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/120828 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley for Institute of British Geographers | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | asset‐transfer | en_GB |
dc.subject | austerity state | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cornwall | en_GB |
dc.subject | geo‐constitution | en_GB |
dc.subject | institutional switching | en_GB |
dc.subject | town and parish councils | en_GB |
dc.title | The geo‐constitution and responses to austerity: Institutional entrepreneurship, switching, and re‐scaling in the United Kingdom | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-28T10:02:05Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-2754 | |
exeter.article-number | tran.12387 | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-03-28 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-04-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-04-28T10:00:05Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-04-28T10:02:11Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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