The quiet return of equalization alongside incentive in the English local government finance system

Sandford, Mark

doi:10.1080/09540962.2017.1295724

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“…However, a great deal of land simply has no value and demands a certain degree of investment for development readiness. This suggests that there will still need to be a complex system of equalization between locations and grant funding (Sandford, 2017). Indeed, research recently carried out by the Liberal Democrats (Corlett et al, 2018), into their proposals for Commercial Landowner Levy, indicates that the tax yield will significantly decrease in certain locations in comparison with the business rates system.…”

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Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England

Muldoon‐Smith

Sandford

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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In England, the traditional method of central government redistribution and equalization between locations has been replaced with a greater emphasis on self-sufficiency and entrepreneurism. English local government now faces existential funding questionsa situation that is repeated around the world as the public sector manages the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Financialization has figured large in the study of entrepreneurial behaviour. However, in England, legal and procedural constraints have driven authorities to seek revenue funding from other sources, principally seeking additional property-related revenues. In response, this article presents a novel typology of local government funding sources and offers an original analysis of their implications for local authorities' role. The empirical findings show that the buoyancy and quantum of many funding sources are constrained by prior evolution of location and centrallocal relations: they are not automatic routes to financialization. Conceptually, these findings reveal that methods of financialization, and the local government funding system within which they typically sit, are as likely to be constrained by the evolution and techniques of governance as they are accelerated by it. International debates around financialization, and wider concerns of how locations develop, would benefit from this account of the often-hidden nature and agency of local government funding systems.

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Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England

Muldoon‐Smith

Sandford

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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“…Arguably, despite these increased attempts at decentralisation, all regional and city leaders are driven by the requirements of central mechanisms from Whitehall (Hildreth, 2011;Pike et al, 2015). The 'Westminster Model' governs the central/local relationships whereby central government delivers its own policy priorities through local and regional government actors who come together in coalitions to access specific funding streams from Whitehall, particularly for regional economic development (Sandford, 2017;Ayers et al, 2018). In the UK, just 1.7% of tax as percentage of GDP is set at the local or regional level, compared with an OECD average of 8.9% (O'Brien and .…”

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Intergovernmental dynamics in responding to COVID-19 in English and Australian cities

Broadhurst

Steane

Mykhnenko

et al. 2022

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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This comparative study, conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, explores how the contrasting governance systems in Australia and England responded to complex and rapidly evolving problems presented by the crisis. Comparing how national and local governments worked together and alongside other forms of subnational governance, the findings highlight the efficacy of multi-scalar governance arrangement in Australia over the fragmented, overly-centralised and inconsistent arrangements in England. As nations plan their recovery paths from the economic and social challenges of the crisis, the findings encourage a reset of spatial policy towards one that values and resources greater decentralisation and place-based recovery.

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“…The central government rationale for current changes is to improve incentives to economic growth in each local area, by providing more future autonomy for each authority to set its own business rates and to keep the revenue from the tax that each business pays (Sandford, 2017). The increase in local enterprise units is related to the intention to allow local authorities to retain 100% of their business rate receipts by 2020 (LGIU, 2017c).…”

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English local government finance in transition: towards the ‘marketization of income’

Taylor

Haynes

Darking

2020

Public Management Review

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This study examines the impact of English local government finance reform after the 2008 International Financial Crisis. It uses advances in case-based methods, combined into Dynamic Pattern Synthesis, to explore comparative changes. Reductions in central government financing threaten the continuation of local services. The results show significant political and management differences as local authorities adapt to manage their survival. Disadvantaged areas are worse affected and to deliver local services are increasingly dependent on 'market innovations', and local enterprise to secure income. Previous research has explained the marketization of supply, this new research explores the turn to the 'marketization of income'.

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The quiet return of equalization alongside incentive in the English local government finance system

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England

Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England

Intergovernmental dynamics in responding to COVID-19 in English and Australian cities

English local government finance in transition: towards the ‘marketization of income’

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