This work used event study to examine the impact of three policies (shutdowns, reopening,
and mask mandates) on changes in the daily COVID-19 infection growth rate at the state …

Sub-national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been politicized in the US.
Survival analysis was run on when stay-at-home orders were enacted and lifted across US …

This article updates cutback management theory and challenges austerity urbanism theory
by showing that local governments practice pragmatic municipalism—protecting services …

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 …

While national governments responded to the Great Recession with austerity, local
government responses were varied. Two contrasting views are found in the …

As local governments respond to fiscal stress after the global financial crisis, some scholars
warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize …

During the covid-19 pandemic, basic income pilot programs spread across US cities like the
novel coronavirus itself. The policy of no-strings-attached cash transfers marks a potentially …

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 …

Will a legacy of fiscal stress limit local governments' willingness to make equity-focused
investments even in the context of the relative surplus that American Rescue Plan funds …

This paper investigates the potential of human development theory to provide alternatives to
long-standing practical and conceptual problems in traditional economic development. We …