Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation in US local government services: balancing fiscal stress, need and political interests

ME Warner, AM Aldag, Y Kim - Public Management Review, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

Pragmatic municipalism: privatization and remunicipalisation in the US

ME Warner - Local Government Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
At the local government level in the US, the process of privatisation has been a dynamic one
of experimentation with market delivery and return to public delivery when privatisation fails …

Pandemic relief spending by New York local governments

ME Warner, AM Aldag - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 federal government funding, especially the State and Local Fiscal Relief Funds
(SLFRF) from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), passed in 2021, encouraged …

Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress

Y Kim, ME Warner - Local Government Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While national governments responded to the Great Recession with austerity, local
government responses were varied. Two contrasting views are found in the …

De‐municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks

A Smith, M Whitten, M Ernwein - The Geographical Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Parks are important urban infrastructures that contribute a broad range of health,
environmental, social, and economic benefits. Despite this, UK parks' status as non‐statutory …

Impact of fiscal expenditure stress on green transformation risk: evidence from China education authority reform

F Peng, S Zhou, T Ding, H Wu - Economic Change and Restructuring, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing fiscal support is a crucial assurance for achieving green development, while the
increasingly prominent fiscal expenditure stress has been subjected to a great challenge in …

Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government

C Flink, X Xu - Public Administration, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Through a behavioral approach, citizen evaluations of government performance have been
an area of study in public administration. Research has explored how different factors …

Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state

ME Warner, PM Kelly, X Zhang - Cambridge Journal of Regions …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represented a short-term shift in US social policy. Under the
CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the federal government prioritised …

Do austerity cuts spare police budgets? Welfare‐to‐carceral realignment during fiscal crises

B Beck - Criminology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Did governments shift funding from their social welfare functions to their criminal justice
functions after the 1980s? Studies investigating this possible “punitive turn” have been …

Representative bureaucracy, age-friendly planning, and the role of gender, public engagement, and professional management

ME Warner, X Zhang - Administration & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
What leads to more age-friendly cities: professional management, passive gender
representation in management, or active public engagement? In a survey of 1,378 local …