Despite the significant influence of localism on policy discourses in the UK in recent decades, there has been limited evidence of any fundamental changes in state-civil society relationships. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 created a new context for cross-sectoral collaboration, as the local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and local communities moved to the forefront of the crisis response. This paper draws upon 49 semi-structured interviews with local authorities (LAs) and VCS organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, to explore how the pandemic has reshaped LA-VCS collaboration. Examining the evolution of a range of local collaborative frameworks during the Covid-19 crisis, the article examines what enabled these collaborations to develop, how they operated and what insights can be derived regarding both the conditions for collaboration to flourish and the capacity to sustain this going forward. The findings offer insights into what more progressive forms of collaboration might look like during the transition from crisis and into recovery. It contributes to broader debates about whether the models deployed during Covid-19 represent a pathway to more consensus-based collaboration after a decade of antagonism between civil society and the state.

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不再“坐等大跃进”？Covid-19 期间地方政府-自愿和社区部门关系的进展

尽管近几十年来地方主义对英国的政策话语产生了重大影响，但关于国家与公民社会关系发生根本性变化的证据有限。2020 年爆发的 Covid-19 大流行为跨部门合作创造了新的环境，因为当地志愿和社区部门 (VCS) 和当地社区走到了危机应对的最前沿。本文利用对英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士地方当局 (LA) 和 VCS 组织的 49 次半结构化访谈，探讨大流行病如何重塑 LA-VCS 合作。这篇文章考察了 Covid-19 危机期间一系列本地协作框架的演变，探讨了是什么促成了这些协作的发展，他们是如何运作的，以及可以得出哪些关于合作蓬勃发展的条件和维持这种发展的能力的见解。这些发现提供了关于在从危机过渡到复苏过程中更先进的合作形式可能是什么样子的见解。它有助于更​​广泛的辩论，即在经历了公民社会与国家之间十年的对立之后，在 Covid-19 期间部署的模型是否代表了通向更多基于共识的合作的途径。