The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England
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地方主义的局限性:英国无家可归者十年的灾难
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2020
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B. Watts
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作者:
S. Fitzpatrick;Hal Pawson;B. Watts
The rhetoric and practice of localism has attracted significant support within both political and academic circles in the UK in recent years. However, it is the contention of this article that there are, or should be, limits to localism as applied to the basic citizenship rights of
vulnerable people. Drawing on a ten-year, mixed-methods study, we use the example of sharply rising homelessness in England to illustrate our argument that localist policymaking has an intrinsic tendency to disadvantage socially marginalised groups. While we acknowledge the central role played
by austerity in driving up homelessness over the past decade, we advance the case that the post-2010 localist agenda of successive UK governments has also had an independent and malign effect. At the very least, we seek to demonstrate that localism cannot be viewed as a taken-for-granted progressive
model, with centralism (that is, the consistent implementation of a policy across a whole country) also perfectly defensible on progressive grounds in relevant circumstances.
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10.1080/14036096.2014.947173
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2014
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Housing, Theory and Society
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Matthews P
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Matthews P