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The banking collapse and ensuing global financial crisis has been the subject of much analysis and speculation.One growing certainty is that there will be an impact on the delivery of public services and on local government and governance. This topical book examines and debates the challenges posed, on a local, European and global level, by the imperative to balance a fiscal need for smaller public expenditure with a social need for strong governance and protection of the most vulnerable in UK society.Leading academics in the field of local governance contribute to a diverse set of analyses on the impact of the financial crisis.

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"""This book promises to connect the larger dynamics of crisis, the institutional arrangements of public services and some of the specific locations of the impacts of the crisis."" John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University ""Is there an alternative to our children having to learn Mandarin, and becoming losers in a cut-throat global market? Although it is often claimed this is inevitable, this book presents some other options and perspectives."" Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield"

This book promises to connect the larger dynamics of crisis, the institutional arrangements of public services and some of the specific locations of the impacts of the crisis. John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University

this book is a really interesting insight into changes in local government in the midst of one of the deepest crisis of the capitalist system. International Journal of Housing Policy this book is a really interesting insight into changes in local government in the midst of one of the deepest crisis of the capitalist system. International Journal of Housing Policy Is there an alternative to our children having to learn Mandarin, and becoming losers in a cut-throat global market? Although it is often claimed this is inevitable, this book presents some other options and perspectives. Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

""This book promises to connect the larger dynamics of crisis, the institutional arrangements of public services and some of the specific locations of the impacts of the crisis."" John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University ""Is there an alternative to our children having to learn Mandarin, and becoming losers in a cut-throat global market? Although it is often claimed this is inevitable, this book presents some other options and perspectives."" Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

This book promises to connect the larger dynamics of crisis, the institutional arrangements of public services and some of the specific locations of the impacts of the crisis. John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University Is there an alternative to our children having to learn Mandarin, and becoming losers in a cut-throat global market? Although it is often claimed this is inevitable, this book presents some other options and perspectives. Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

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Joanna Richardson is a Principal Lecturer in the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester. In addition to her teaching and programme leadership, she has research interests in the impact of the financial crisis on vulnerable groups, Gypsies and Travellers, and housing and the customer. She has written and edited several books including The Gypsy Debate: Can Discourse Control? (2006), Providing Gypsy and Travellers Sites: Contentious Spaces (JRF, 2007), and Housing and the Customer (2010).

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