Modernisation, managerialism and the culture wars: the reshaping of the local welfare state in England

Cochrane, Allan (2004). Modernisation, managerialism and the culture wars: the reshaping of the local welfare state in England. Local Government Studies, 30(4) pp. 481–496.

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Abstract

The story of local government over the last few decades is often summarised in the assertion that there has been a move away from institutional authority embodied in the structures of councils towards more complex networks of local governance, incorporating a range of stakeholders and other agencies, alongside a shift of power from local to central government. But local government has been at the centre of wider processes of restructuring - of attempts to modernise the welfare state, and specifically the local welfare state. Underpinning the changes that have faced local government (and created new forms of governance) has been a series of assumptions about welfare and how it is best delivered. These combine notions of community, neighbourhood, personal responsibility, workfare and partnership with a distrust of 'bureaucracy' and professional power. It is in this context that the 'modernisation' agenda - promising cultural change - has been driven forward, paradoxically combining a rhetoric of decentralisation and empowerment with an increasingly direct involvement by the institutions of central government and a range of other state agencies in the practice of 'local' governance. The emergent arrangements are increasingly characterised by forms of self-regulation as well as more differentiated management from above.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Copyright Holders:	2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd.
ISSN:	1743-9388
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Research Group:	OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
Item ID:	3048
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Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2006
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2019 07:31
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3048
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