Governmental financial resilience under austerity in Austria, England and Italy: How do local governments cope with financial shocks?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barbera, Carmela; Jones, Martin; Korac, Sanja; Saliterer, Iris; Steccolini, Ileana
• 署名单位: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Nottingham Trent University; University of Nottingham; University of Klagenfurt; University of Freiburg; Newcastle University - UK
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12350
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 670-697
• 关键词: fiscal crisis; environmental-change; cutback management; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; adaptation; responses; LESSONS; implementation; strategies; decline

摘要

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 conditions. This article draws on the resilience concept to investigate the organizational capacities that are deployed and/or built by local governments (LGs) to respond to such shocks, looking at their combinations and interactions with environmental conditions. The article presents the results of a multiple-case analysis of 12 European LG s across Austria, Italy and England. The analysis allows us to highlight and operationalize different patterns of financial resilience, that is, self-regulation, constrained or reactive adaptation, contented or powerless fatalism, that are the result of the interaction and development over time of different internal and external dimensions.