Challenges to local government
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Bibliographic Information
Challenges to local government
(Sage modern politics series, v. 28)
Sage Pub., 1990
Available at 26 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Challenges to Local Government offers a timely discussion of how local governments have implemented public policies during the last decade. Concentrating on Britain and the United States (but with essays on Scandinavia, France and Canada) the authors document, explain and analyze the implications of these policies for local autonomy, focusing especially upon local economic initiatives.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Desmond S King and Jon Pierre
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Local Autonomy - Michael Goldsmith
Theory and Practice
Assessing Local Autonomy - Jon Pierre
PART TWO: ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
Displacement, Partnership and Privatization - Chris Moore
Local Government and Urban Economic Regeneration in the 1980s
Local Autonomy and Urban Economic Development Policies - Alan Harding
The Recent UK Experience
The New Urban Left and Local Economic Initiatives - Desmond S King
The Greater London Enterprise Board
Local Economic Policies, the State and City Councils - Patrick Le Gal[ac]es
Conventry and Rennes
PART THREE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES
The Reagan Urban Policy and its Impacts - Harold Wolman
Progressive Politics and Canadian Cities - Warren Magnusson
Business Leadership in Urban Regeneration - Brian D Jacobs
Towards a Shared Vision?
Nordic Free-Commune Experiments - Lawrence E Rose
Increased Local Autonomy or Continued Central Control
PART FOUR: THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Regulation Theory, Local Government and the Transition from Fordism - Gerry Stoker
Economic Activity and the Challenge to Local Government - Desmond S King
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