The recent economic and fiscal crisis provides an opportunity for learning lessons of general
and practical relevance about how governments face shocks affecting their financial …

The global financial and economic crisis that hit Western countries between 2007 and 2008
has generated an extensive literature. Several policy responses are now recognized, based …

Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban
Municipalities is an important book. This first comprehensive analysis of the financial …

Since the Great Recession, some have argued that local governments have become
'austerity machines' that cut and privatize services and undermine unions. We conducted a …

ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

This article updates cutback management theory and challenges austerity urbanism theory
by showing that local governments practice pragmatic municipalism—protecting services …

Strategic planning has the potential to enable cities to weather the effects of fiscal crises.
City officials can use the information gathered though internal and external scanning to …

This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast
two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use …

Through a behavioral approach, citizen evaluations of government performance have been
an area of study in public administration. Research has explored how different factors …

Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-
oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally …