Organising Intergovernmental Relations: Insights from Cultural Theory

Tom Entwistle
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Tom Entwistle: Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3EU, Wales

Environment and Planning C, 2010, vol. 28, issue 4, 630-645

Abstract: That England has a hierarchical relationship between central and local government is a staple of postwar constitutional commentary. By using cultural theory's five modes of organisation—namely, hierarchies, markets, networks, autonomism, and fatalism—to analyse 109 interviews conducted with politicians and managers in nine local authorities I question the adequacy of this characterisation. While many of those interviewed did indeed describe the operation of a very hierarchical system, others pointed to the excesses of network and market forms of organisation. Others, still, seemed to think that local authorities enjoyed altogether too much autonomy in certain areas.

Date: 2010
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