Briefing 9: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: communities and local authorities

Part of a set of rapid research briefings looking at how communities responded to and recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic.

This briefing looks at literature on the relationships between local authorities and communities. It revisits the idea of social capital, considers models of relationships at the local level, and examines research on the dilemmas of community participation programmes and the local impact of austerity.