Austerity policies have affected local government for over a decade challenging their financial resilience to cope with further financial shocks. Using a financial resilience framework, this paper examines whether lower tier authorities behave in the same way as their higher tier counterparts when it comes to financial resilience to shocks. From a detailed field study of three lower tier (district) authorities in English local government, it is concluded that they do not have the capacity to ‘Bounce Forwards’. They can only ‘Bounce Back’ in the short term and even that is becoming increasingly difficult.

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金融韧性！英格兰三个下级当局的比较研究

十多年来，紧缩政策一直影响着地方政府，挑战其应对进一步金融冲击的财政弹性。使用金融弹性框架，本文研究了在金融冲击抵御能力方面，下级当局的行为是否与上级当局相同。通过对英国地方政府三个下级（地区）当局的详细实地研究，得出的结论是，他们没有能力“反弹”。他们只能在短期内“反弹”，即使这样也变得越来越困难。