Local Government in the United Kingdom (Government Beyond the Centre)

by etc. (Author), David Wilson (Author), Gerry Stoker (Author), Chris Game (Author), David Wilson (Author), Gerry Stoker (Author), Chris Game (Author), David Wilson (Author), Steve Leach (Author)

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  1994

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  '...Excellent...A comprehensive and accessible guide to British local government in the 1990s...I have just read the standard student text on local government for the decade.' Rod Rhodes, Local Government Studies This book provides a basic, straightforward and up to date introduction to British local government in clear and non-technical language. Recent years have seen local government become an issue of high political salience and continuing financial and structural changes promise to keep it centre stage for some time to come. Placing recent events in context, Local Government in the United Kingdom provides an ideal text for students encountering local government for the first time.

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  2002

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  The state of perpetual change that characterized British local government during the Thatcher/Major years did not end with the election of New Labour in 1997. The Blair administration developed its own modernization agenda for local government: democratic renewal, best value services, beacon councils, public-private partnerships, public service agreements and, for the first time in British history, directly elected executive mayors. This completely revised third edition of the text evaluates these changes, as well as the likely impact of broader processes of political and economic change and Labour's second term agenda.