Local Strategic Partnerships, Neighbourhood Renewal, and the Limits to Co-governance

Johnson, Carole L.; Osborne, Stephen P.

doi:10.1111/1467-9302.00362

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“…local council and NHS; council and central government agency). In addition, non-state actors involved in co-governance tended to be professionalised organisations (see Johnson and Osborne, 2003;Kelly, 2007;Carmel and Harlock, 2008) often with comparable structures to those of state actors. Arguably, public bureaucracies have not been replaced or marginalised but have assumed a new mode of state authority.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, even the non-state actors, e.g. professionalised voluntary sector organisations, were accountable to various governing bodies (see Kelly, 2007;Jackson, 2010;Johnson and Osborne, 2003). Interviewees from voluntary sector organisations recognised their subsidiary role and their resource dependency with regards to state actors.…”

Section: Thesis 3: the Governance Interactions Are Game-like Rooted Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Local authorities now share to a greater extent than before…decision making responsibilities with other agencies". This reconfiguration became evident within local government by the late 1990s (Johnson and Osborne, 2003;Agranoff and McGuire, 1998;Kelly, 2006;Bovaird, 2007). Through a series of legislative and cultural changes, local governance itself became mainstreamed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Co-governance or meta-bureaucracy? Perspectives of local governance ‘partnership’ in England and Scotland

Fenwick

Johnston

McTavish

2012

Policy &Amp; Politics

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This paper assesses the nature of partnerships through the research site of local governance in England and Scotland, engaging a range of debates and literature around governance and meta-governance. The research used secondary data of local authority partnership working in England and Scotland as well as primary qualitative data from participant observation and interviews with senior officials of local authorities and partner organisations. There is little to suggest English and Scottish practices are significantly at variance and the paper advances an argument of meta-bureaucracy to describe partnerships" activities: that is to say, partnerships do not represent a growth of autonomous networks and governance arrangements but rather an extension of bureaucratic controls. State actors remain pre-eminent within increasingly formalised systems of "partnership".

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Co-governance or meta-bureaucracy? Perspectives of local governance ‘partnership’ in England and Scotland

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McTavish

2012

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“…The objective of LSPs is to bring local "stakeholders" together to hammer out a "community strategy", which typically sets the strategic goals for an area over 5-10 years, listing key priorities and identifying those responsible for action (Johnson and Osborne, 2003). This approach is partly to do with unifying diverse actors under a common strategy aligned with the Government"s "one nation" project.…”

Section: Modernising Public Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social Exclusion Debate:

Davies

2005

Policy Studies

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This paper explores the UK government"s approach to combating social exclusion since 1997. It considers the philosophy and political economy underpinning New Labour policy, and explains the economic and social policy prescriptions that follow from these principles. The government"s social exclusion agenda has provoked a wide range of controversies and debates in the academic and political communities. In addition to putting a perspective on the government"s political economy of social exclusion, the purpose of this paper is to explore key debates. The story of New Labour"s political economy of social exclusion therefore pauses at key junctures to discuss eight controversies and dilemmas representing a range of critical responses to third way thinking about social inclusion. It is concluded that New Labour"s approach to social exclusion is contractarian, offering conditional access to the mainstream to outsiders. The individual pledges to take responsibility across the full spectrum of social life, from enhancing her employability to maintaining a healthy life style. The state is re-shaped to bear part of the risk that such responsible individuals face, but in ways that minimise dependency and the social wage.

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“…Johnson and Osborne (2003) review the potential for LSPs in achieving the dual aims of the co-ordination of service delivery and powersharing or co-governance. They conclude that the prospects for achieving coordination are much greater because of the emphasis placed on monitoring the delivery of the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and the requirement to contribute to government targets, such as Public Service Agreements and floor targets.…”

Section: Transformationmentioning

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Transformation or Bureaucratization? The changing role of community representation in local strategic partnerships in England

Bailey

2005

Journal of Civil Society

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Local Strategic Partnerships, Neighbourhood Renewal, and the Limits to Co-governance

Cited by 68 publications

References 7 publications

Co-governance or meta-bureaucracy? Perspectives of local governance ‘partnership’ in England and Scotland

Co-governance or meta-bureaucracy? Perspectives of local governance ‘partnership’ in England and Scotland

The Social Exclusion Debate:

Transformation or Bureaucratization? The changing role of community representation in local strategic partnerships in England

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