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来源

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,Vol.42,Issue6,P.1096-1113

语言

英文

关键字

participation; co-optation; legitimacy; austerity urbanism; Cardiff; Wales; San Sebastian-Donostia; Spain; LOCAL GOVERNANCE; NEOLIBERALISM; SERVICES; STATE

作者单位

[Guarneros-Meza, Valeria] De Montfort Univ, Dept Polit People & Pl, Hugh Aston Bldg,Newarke Rd, Leicester LE1 9BH, Leics, England. [Telleria, Imanol; Blas, Asier] Univ Basque Country, UPV EHU, Dept Polit Sci & Publ Adm, Fac Social Sci & Commun, Sarriena Auzo Z-G, Leioa 48940, Bizkaia, Spain. [Pill, Madeleine] Univ Sydney, Fac Arts & Social Sci, Dept Govt & Int Relat, Room 457,Merewether Bldg H04, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Guarneros-Meza, V (reprint author), De Montfort Univ, Dept Polit People & Pl, Hugh Aston Bldg,Newarke Rd, Leicester LE1 9BH, Leics, England. E-Mail: valeria.guarneros@dmu.ac.uk; imanol.telleria@ehu.es; asier.blas@gmail.com; madeleine.pill@sydney.edu.au

摘要

In this article we compare Cardiff and San Sebastian-Donostia (Donostia) qualitatively, arguing that local governments' capacity to co-opt non-state actors provides a relevant approach to understanding changes in citizen participation under fiscal austerity. Our argument is based on the close interrelationships of co-optation, legitimacy and procedural regulation. These concepts help us understand how citizen participation is maintained in periods of instability, as experienced by city governments during and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Local governments' legitimacy is maintained in so far as it shows capacity to co-opt through negotiation, capture, 'technicalization' of processes and minimization of conflict. These elements work in tandem with factors of urban austerity embedded into a longer-term neoliberalizing discourse. Our findings show that both city governments maintained their legitimacy but that, in the process, Cardiff Council's co-optive capacity weakened, in contrast to Donostia's.