Massive cuts in public spending are demanding a new era of collaborative working among partners in English local governance. Partnerships have the capacity to pool assets, share scarce resources and leverage new forms of social and human capital. City-wide partnerships are also ideal vehicles...

The sub-discipline of 'urban politics' has been constructed in opposition to a traditional version of 'institutional theory'-an approach that collapsed the political processes affecting urban communities with the workings of elected local government. Attention has shifted towards the broader...

This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered character (and effects) of institutional formation, and tests it in a case study of the new Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales. Inspired by new institutionalism's generic claim that ‘the organisation of...