Local Government

This book is the first to directly address the impact of the English government's state of decline after forty years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government, on the institution of local government; a crucial element in the democratic viability of a unitary state...

This book is the first to directly address the impact of the English government's state of decline after forty years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government, on the institution of local government; a crucial element in the democratic viability of a unitary state...

@text:This text provides an in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. The second edition is a major revision to update the ..

Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)..

Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)..

An authoritative analysis of current attempts to improve local public services in the UK. Written by leading figures in the field it will be of great interst to all students, researchers, public sector managers and policy makers in the UK and abroad...

Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services provides a comparative overview of the emergence, organization and performance of public-private partnerships around the globe._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Local Government Studies...

First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘indu..

First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘indu..

This book offers the hypothesis that the role perceptions as well as the behaviour of councillors depend on their notion of democracy. It addresses the question of how far their understanding of democracy is affected by institutional structure and to the extent that the structures depend on the pers..