Financial and Service Sustainability of Local Authorities – Evidence. (In Local Government and Select Committee)
(2016)
Report
Ferry, L. (2016). Financial and Service Sustainability of Local Authorities – Evidence. (In Local Government and Select Committee). [No known commissioning body]
Outputs (18)
Budget Response. (2016)
Other
Ferry, L. (2016). Budget Response
Devolution Response. (2016)
Other
Ferry, L. (2016). Devolution Response
Debate: Freedom, power and capacity—analysing the fallout from the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum (2016)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., & Eckersley, P. (2017). Debate: Freedom, power and capacity—analysing the fallout from the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum. Public Money & Management, 37(1), 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1249218The sociologist Nikolas Rose (1999 Rose, N. (1999), Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought (Cambridge University Press). [CrossRef] ) in his influential book Powers of Freedom—Reframing Political Thought suggests that today we demand to be go... Read More about Debate: Freedom, power and capacity—analysing the fallout from the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum.
Institutional entrepreneurship, practice memory, and cultural memory: Choice and creativity in the pursuit of endogenous change of local authority budgeting (2016)
Journal Article
Ahrens, T., & Ferry, L. (2018). Institutional entrepreneurship, practice memory, and cultural memory: Choice and creativity in the pursuit of endogenous change of local authority budgeting. Management Accounting Research, 38, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mar.2016.11.001This paper explores how a lower government organisation can act as an institutional entrepreneur. It builds on recent public sector budgeting research that identified the endogenisation of budget rules as an important element of institutional entrepr... Read More about Institutional entrepreneurship, practice memory, and cultural memory: Choice and creativity in the pursuit of endogenous change of local authority budgeting.
Written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on the Financial Sustainability of Local Authorities (2016)
Report
Ferry, L. (2016). Written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on the Financial Sustainability of Local Authorities. [No known commissioning body]I welcome this opportunity to submit written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Financial Sustainability of Local Authorities. This reply draws on my personal senior level experience and recent published academic work on financial... Read More about Written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on the Financial Sustainability of Local Authorities.
NHS Sustainability Evidence. (2016)
Report
Ferry, L., & Gebreiter, F. (in press). NHS Sustainability Evidence. [No known commissioning body]
Accountability and Transparency: Police Forces in England and Wales (2016)
Journal Article
Murphy, P., Eckersley, P., & Ferry, L. (2017). Accountability and Transparency: Police Forces in England and Wales. Public Policy and Administration, 32(3), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076716671033Between 2010 and 2015, the UK’s Coalition Government introduced directly-elected Police and Crime Commissioners to oversee English and Welsh police forces, and also required every force to publish a range of performance and financial information onli... Read More about Accountability and Transparency: Police Forces in England and Wales.
Accountable to whom? Data transparency, depoliticisation and the myth of the market in English local government (2016)
Book Chapter
Eckersley, P., & Ferry, L. (2016). Accountable to whom? Data transparency, depoliticisation and the myth of the market in English local government. In B. Cuadrado-Ballesteros, & I. M. García-Sánchez (Eds.), Local governments in the digital era : looking for accountability. Nova Science Publishers
Are local freedoms at risk? (2016)
Journal Article
Ferry, L. (2016). Are local freedoms at risk?. Municipal journal (London. 1970),As part of the ‘devolution revolution’ the UK central government devolved a general power of competence to English local authorities under the Localism Act 2011. In theory, local communities should have a greater say in the running of services as cen... Read More about Are local freedoms at risk?.