David Wilson, Chris Game

Local Government in the United Kingdom (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recent changes in local government have been greater and faster than ever. The fifth edition of this leading local government text - comprehensively revised up to and including the 2010 general election - evaluates the changes under Labour and provides an accessible and informed insight into the new government's agenda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230356672
• Artikelnr.: 47860123

Autorenporträt

DAVID WILSON Professor of Public Administration, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Business and Law at De Montfort University, Leicester.

CHRIS GAME Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Our Aims and Approach.- Themes and Issues in Local Government.- Why Elected Local Government?.- The Way it Was.- The Way it Is External Structures.- Devolution to the Nations and Regions.- The Way it Is Internal Structures.- Functions and Services.- Governance and Partnership.- Central-Local Government Relations The Formal Framework.- Central-Local Government Relations The Practice.- Local Finance.- Local Elections Christmas Tree Lights?.- Councillors The Voice of Choice.- The Local Government Workforce.- Political Parties.- Who Makes Policy?.- Voluntary and Community Groups.- Three Decades, Two Governments, One Direction.- 'Localism, Localism, Localism'?.