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The Limits to Resilience? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London

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  • Amanda Fitzgerald
  • Ruth Lupton

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Compared with other service areas, spending on local government has suffered particularly large cuts under the austerity measures of the Coalition government in England since 2010. This article provides detailed evidence from three London boroughs as to the impacts of these cuts. Following an analysis of the scale and distribution of the cuts, we describe how local authorities have responded, utilising categories of efficiencies, reinvestment and retrenchment. We then address the extent to which these responses demonstrate local authority resilience. We find that the boroughs have demonstrated, in the period covered, a capacity to ‘bounce forward’ from the external shock of the cuts, corresponding to a concept of ‘resilience as transformation’. However, we conclude that a broader notion of resilience is also needed, taking into account not only the nature of organisational responses but also the extent of their capacity to support the needs of residents, which a focus on transformation may too easily obscure.

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  • Amanda Fitzgerald & Ruth Lupton, 2015. "The Limits to Resilience? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 582-600, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:41:y:2015:i:4:p:582-600
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2015.1040154
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    1. Annette Hastings & Nick Bailey & Glen Bramley & Maria Gannon, 2017. "Austerity urbanism in England: The ‘regressive redistribution’ of local government services and the impact on the poor and marginalised," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(9), pages 2007-2024, September.
    2. Neil Lee, 2019. "Inclusive Growth in cities: a sympathetic critique," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(3), pages 424-434, March.
    3. David Clifford, 2021. "Disparities by deprivation: The geographical impact of unprecedented changes in local authority financing on the voluntary sector in England," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(8), pages 2050-2067, November.
    4. Andrew Smith, 2021. "Sustaining municipal parks in an era of neoliberal austerity: The contested commercialisation of Gunnersbury Park," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(4), pages 704-722, June.

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