The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity
The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity
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DOI：
10.1093/cjres/rsy019
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发表时间：
2018-11-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Barford, Anna
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作者：
Gray, Mia;Barford, Anna
自2010年以来，持续而广泛地削减政府预算的紧缩政策一直是英国公共政策的特征。在中央政府大幅削减预算的推动下，地方政府进行了实质性的重组。迄今为止，很少有关于英国紧缩政策的研究考虑到国家和地方政策的相互作用。我们对地方政府预算进行了细致的空间分析，强调了它们在社会经济和地理上的不平衡影响。我们在资金、地方税基、财政资源、资产、政治控制、服务需求和人口统计等方面发现了当局之间的巨大差异。我们认为，紧缩积极地重塑了英国中央和地方政府之间的关系，缩小了地方政府的能力，增加了地方政府之间的不平等，加剧了领土不公正。
Austerity, the sustained and widespread cuts to government budgets, has characterised Britain's public policy since 2010. The local state has undergone substantial restructuring, driven by major budget reductions from central government. Hitherto, few studies of austerity in the UK have considered the interplay of national and local policies. We contribute a fine-grained spatial analysis of local authority budgets, highlighting their socioeconomically and geographically uneven impacts. We identify substantial variations between authorities in terms of funding, local tax-base, fiscal resources, assets, political control, service-need and demographics. We argue that austerity has actively reshaped the relationship between central and local government in Britain, shrinking the capacity of the local state, increasing inequality between local governments and exacerbating territorial injustice.