Viewed within their historical context, recent cuts to public social spending and increasingly
governmental welfare reforms reflect and beget a shift in the praxis of social citizenship in …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK,
incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central …

That contemporary austerity is being realised to a large extent in and through cities is a
growing theme in urban scholarship. Similarly, the concern that the economically …

Resilient organizations maintain functioning during times of unexpected adversity.
Collaboration may enhance resilience by enabling scarce information, resources and …

Background Social prescribing is a collaborative approach to improve inter-sectoral working
between primary health care and community organisations. The Links Worker Programme …

Collaboration between public sector organizations is typically understood as a response to
complexity. Agencies collaborate in order to address complex, cross-cutting policy needs …

While national governments responded to the Great Recession with austerity, local
government responses were varied. Two contrasting views are found in the …

Globally, it is recognised that the fundamental causes of iniquitous health outcomes lie
within unequal distributions of wealth and power. Internationally, however, policies and …

This article outlines how a local authority, Newcastle City Council (NCC), employed a public
value strategy to address austerity localism. Borrowing from neo-institutional theory, it traces …