How local governments answer to their masters and not their communities

Jacques and Jennifer discuss how local governments answer to higher levels of government rather than communities, and operate like factories delivering products in the market place. They first talk about universities and proposed defunding of the humanities. The program finishes with a look at the long-term winding back of preventative public health that works with local communities, (which has had dire consequences for the spread of the coronavirus). Overall, the managerialist, neoliberal approach siphons power from communities and from ordinary people. Garland, C. (2020) "Changing Behaviour:" The Hierarchical and Bureaucratic Imperative of Instrumental Reason in the Corporatized Universityhttps://www.academia.edu/43288760/Garland_C._2020_Changing_Behaviour_The_Hierarchical_and_Bureaucratic_Imperative_of_Instrumental_Reason_in_the_Corporatized_University