Local Agency for the Public Purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK

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dc.contributor.authorBarnett, Neil
dc.contributor.authorGriggs, Steven
dc.contributor.authorHall, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorHowarth, David
dc.date.acceptance2021-09-14
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-11T15:33:08Z
dc.date.available2021-10-11T15:33:08Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-31
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the contested politics and interpretations of the new practices of municipal entrepreneurship across local government in the UK. Drawing on empirical evidence from six cases studies of entrepreneurship in local councils, self-characterisations of income-generating projects in thirty authorities, and a series of semi-structured interviews, we identify, name and characterise an emergent discourse of municipal entrepreneurship for the public purpose. We argue that this novel strand of discourse within the wider field of urban entrepreneurialism confers a degree of political agency to local authorities under austerity, while redescribing and attaching commercialism and entrepreneurship to the public good. In so doing, we challenge overly reductionist accounts of local state agency under austerity, and articulate and evaluate the potentials and obstacles for a progressive interventionism in this discursive space.en
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.funder.otherAssociation for Public Service Excellenceen
dc.identifier.citationBarnett, N., Griggs, S., Hall, S. and Howarth, D. (2021) Local Agency for the Public Purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK. Local Government Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1988935.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1988935
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/21347
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.researchinstituteLocal Governance Research Centre (LGRC)en
dc.subjectMunicipalismen
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectCommercialisationen
dc.subjectLocal Governmenten
dc.subjectAgencyen
dc.subjectAusterityen
dc.subjectDiscourseen
dc.titleLocal Agency for the Public Purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UKen
dc.typeArticleen

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