New Labour's third White Paper promised the revitalization of local government after ten years of control freakery. It does not, however, live up to the promise of a ‘new localism' (Stoker and Wilson, 2004). The tenor of the paper is moralizing and prescriptive, claims to a new approach belied...

This paper seeks to bring conflict back into the analysis of the new institutions of urban governance. Neither the orthodox nor the sceptical literatures on the proliferation of autonomous, self-organising networks in urban governance pay sufficient attention to the role of conflict in defining...

Drawing from neo-Gramscian theory, the paper explores how urban austerity governance mediates crises of neoliberal hegemony. Focusing on the decade after the Global Economic Crisis of 2008–2009, it compares four European cities disclosing five intersecting characteristics of urban political...