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Since its onset in 2020 Covid-19 impacts have engendered rapid interventions across all policy domains and at all scales of government. This has prompted lively debate around the wider significance and longer-term implications of such moves with regard to their role as potential 'punctuations' within a broader policy paradigm shift. This includes acting as a ‘path-clearing’ mechanism that heralds a move towards a different approach; representing the onset of ‘path deviation’ towards such a change; quickly adding to the implementation of new ideas in a process of 'policy acceleration’; or essentially replicating existing patterns to provide 'trend reinforcement'. This paper applies these concepts to a wide range of evidence on local government responses to Covid-19 across the United Kingdom (UK). The analysis focuses on five selected domains: supporting and coordinating mutual aid; maintaining local economies; addressing homelessness; managing parks and other public spaces; and promoting active travel through road space reallocation. Developments in each of these areas are framed by both wider operational and existing policy contexts, as well as with respect to geographical and sectoral variations. The conclusion is that evidence exists for all four types of 'punctuation', but the patterns are inconsistent both between and within different local authorities and policy domains.
We carried out an analysis of political and electoral changes of left‐wing parties which occurred in the last general election in Tuscany. The social environment in Tuscany historically supported leftist values. This social tissue, deep‐rooted in territory, represented the milieu in which grew up: on the one hand a leftist political culture and, on the other, an economic culture based on co‐operative firms. These two factors reinforced each other representing the basis of left electoral prevalence. The strong decrease of left is caused by different factors such as the erosion of old social values and the unresolved effects of economic crisis.
This paper explores the ambivalent nature of community organisation as a response to a ‘crisis of authority’ in post-industrial areas subject to urban regeneration. In the discourse of the Third Way, activism has been increasingly discursively framed as ‘participation’, legitimising a shift in welfare provision from the state onto civil society and a proliferation of private actors. As part of the process, existing local solidarities based on long-term shared interests and histories of conflict with the parts of the state, have been transformed (in theory) into social networks, forms of short-term instrumental co-operation based on consensus. Community activists are brought into contact with what Rose (after Foucault) describes as the ‘technologies’ of power which are deployed to produce governable subjects, co-opting and dividing them from their base communities. However, local participation also provides our most immediate experience of political economy, what Gramsci identifies as a sometimes fierce sense of difference, and the practical, historically acquired local knowledge, or ‘good sense’ which can form the basis of a challenge to hegemonic thinking. Engaging empirically with local organisers in the East Midlands, I conclude that the potential of this as a source of contestation depends on two dimensions of practice: (1) the development by activists of a critical understanding of how to foster or maintain long-term collective interests, identity and practices within their communities and (2) maintaining a clear sense of separation from the state which allows power to be confronted.
Research Report DWP commissioned ECOTEC Research and Consulting to undertake a study on effective governance structures for the devolved delivery of employment outcomes. Desk-based research on international approaches to devolving powers from central government to sub-national levels was complemented by a series of case study visits examining devolved approaches being taken forward in Britain. Key findings in terms of applying the lessons learned to potential approaches to devolved governance in the British context are as follows: • Within devolved governance structures operating in the employment sphere in Britain, the experience and trust built up in recent years indicates that some of the infrastructure required for effectively devolving employment policy is in place, or at least developing well. However, if devolutionary moves are expanded, for example to encompass all sub-regions in Britain, the process of developing an infrastructure to support devolved governance on a wider scale is likely to be a long-term undertaking, particularly in light of the fact that some areas will be starting from a much lower base. • There remain concerns amongst actors operating at the devolved level over the pace and scope of change, and local capacity to respond to this, should moves towards devolution increase. In such a context, central government and its departments would have a key role in ensuring that devolved governance can be operationalised at the sub-national level. This role is likely to encompass the provision of capacity building support for local actors, along with recognition that time, support and guidance are significant in ensuring that the cultural shifts essential to successful devolved governance can be achieved. • A well balanced approach to performance management and accountability is essential in the devolved governance context. Approaches to monitoring and managing performance should reflect the totality of activities undertaken within devolved arrangements. Equally, they should be carefully designed so as to effectively support the development of activities at devolved levels whilst not driving decision making. • Where innovation is a desired outcome from developing devolved governance structures, promoting such innovation is as much about how those structures are implemented and managed as about the type of governance approach adopted. As such there is a requirement for active and ongoing intervention to maintain a focus on innovation as an explicit desired outcome, along with support and guidance to develop reciprocal trust between central and local levels. • In the context of the greater use of contestability and market-based systems as one route to devolved governance, there is a need for ongoing attention, co-ordination and management on the part of Government to ensure this complements, and does not cut across, devolved multi-agency partnership approaches in the shape of Multi-Area Agreements and City Strategy Pathfinders.
