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9780333739259

Local Governance in Britain

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    9780333739259

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    0333739256

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-07-06
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

Contemporary local governance in Britain comprises a complex network of organizations working to formulate policies to address local needs and issues. Local government continues to play an important part in policy and practice and in the structures and processes of local democracy. This book will examine the key issues and debates that are shaping local governance now and in the future while at the same time situating those issues and debates in their historical context.

Author Biography

Robert Leach is Principal Lecturer on Government at Leeds Business School and Janie Percy-Smith is Principal Lecturer in the Policy Research Institute, both at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
ix
Local Governance: the Terms of the Debate
1(20)
From Local Government to Local Governance
1(1)
Governance and Government
2(3)
Multi-level Governance
5(1)
Local Governance and Local Policy
6(3)
Local Governance: Locality and Community
9(3)
The Organisational Dimension to Local Governance
12(3)
Local Governance, Democracy and Power
15(2)
The Structure of the Book: Signposts to Later Chapters
17(4)
Theories, Concepts and Issues
21(26)
The Need for Theory
21(1)
Theorising Urban Power and Policy Making
22(2)
The Market and Governance
24(6)
Networks
30(2)
Power to the People?
32(3)
Local Governance and Community
35(2)
Community Power Revisited
37(2)
Contextualising Local Governance: Modern Capitalism and Globalisation
39(3)
Political Ideologies and Local Governance
42(4)
Conclusion
46(1)
The Development of Local Governance
47(30)
Nineteenth-century Local Governance
47(2)
Multi-purpose and Single-purpose Local Authorities, 1888-1929
49(1)
Whitehall and Town Hall: the Dual Polity
50(1)
Democracy and Bureaucracy: Officers and Members in Twentieth-century Local Government
51(4)
Welfare State and Local State: Governance Following the Second World War
55(2)
The Reform of Local Governance: Economics of Scale and Integrating Services
57(3)
Reorganising the Structure of Local Government: One Tier or Two?
60(4)
The Reform of Local Governance: Finance
64(2)
Reforming Service Delivery: the Enabling Authority and the New Magistracy
66(5)
Local Governance after Thatcher
71(2)
The Role of the Private Sector
73(2)
The Role of the Voluntary (or Third) Sector
75(2)
Community Leadership
77(23)
Introduction
77(1)
Defining Community Leadership
78(2)
Community Planning
80(5)
Local Champion
85(1)
Local Scrutiny
85(1)
Convenor of Partnerships
86(2)
Local Government and Local Agencies
88(3)
Local Quangos
91(4)
Voluntary and Community Sector
95(1)
Business Community
96(2)
Conclusions
98(2)
Local Democracy
100(30)
Introduction
100(2)
Assessing Local Democracy
102(1)
Democracy in Local Government
103(19)
Democracy in Non-elected Institutions of Local Governance
122(6)
Conclusions
128(2)
Resources of Local Governance
130(25)
Introduction
130(1)
Land and Land Usage
131(3)
People
134(2)
Money
136(5)
Authority and Legitimacy
141(2)
Information
143(1)
Organisation
144(1)
Social Capital
145(2)
Combining Resources
147(3)
Allocating Scarce Resources between Alternative Uses
150(3)
Conclusions
153(2)
From Public Administration to `Third Way' Management
155(31)
Introduction
155(1)
From Public `Administration' to Public Management
156(10)
Strategic Management
166(1)
Quality
167(1)
Towards Customer-focused Services
168(1)
Decentralisation
169(2)
Citizen's Charter
171(1)
Exit or Voice?
172(1)
Accountability through Performance Measurement
172(2)
From Management to Governance
174(4)
`Third Way' Management in the Health Service
178(1)
Political Management of Local Authorities
179(5)
Conclusions
184(2)
Addressing the `Wicked Issues'
186(24)
Introduction
186(1)
Defining the `Wicked Issues'
186(1)
The `Rational' Model of Policy Making
187(4)
Limitations of the Traditional Model of Policy Making
191(3)
Addressing the `Wicked Issues'
194(15)
Conclusions
209(1)
Above and Below Local Government: Multi-level Governance
210(23)
Introduction
210(1)
Central--Local Relations
210(2)
Diversity of Intergovernmental Relations
212(3)
Levels of `Local Governance'
215(1)
The European Dimension
216(3)
National Devolution
219(2)
English Regional Government
221(5)
Problems of Multi-Level Governance in the United Kingdom
226(5)
Conclusion
231(2)
Local Governance in the Twenty-first Century
233(11)
Challenges Facing Local Governance
233(1)
Managing Complexity
234(1)
Further Structural Change?
235(3)
New Ways of Working
238(2)
The Scope for Local Autonomy
240(2)
Re-engaging the Public
242(2)
Bibliography 244(15)
Index 259

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