Enabling or disabling local government : choices for the future

著者

• Leach, Steve
• Davis, Howard

書誌事項

Enabling or disabling local government : choices for the future

Steve Leach, Howard Davis, and associates

（Public policy and management series）

Open University Press, 1996

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. [173]-178

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780335193486

内容説明

* What are the main underlying patterns in the changes which central government have introduced in relation to local government over the past 10-15 years? * What are the major choices of direction facing local authorities, in working out how to respond to these (and other) changes? * What is the significance of local government reorganization within this overall pattern of change, and how is it likely to turn out? Over the past ten years or so there has been an unprecedented amount of change in the world of British local government: for instance the growth of Compulsory Competitive Tendering; the opportunity for schools to opt out of local authority control; the new responsibilities for community care; the introduction of the community charge (or poll tax) and its subsequent replacement with council tax. And now local government is in the throes of a major and controversial reorganization. There have been several books which have described such changes but this one represents the first systematic attempt to draw out the overall implications of these changes for the future role of local government as an institution. It argues that there are major strategic choices of direction facing local authorities, and that these choices will shape management structures and many other aspects of local choice. The book provides a clear framework of analysis to enable readers to understand the forces at work in this particularly turbulent and unstable period of local government's history, and to see where they are leading.

目次

Introduction Section one: Dimensions of change and choice The fragmentation of community government The dimensions of analysis governance, markets and community Local government reorganization a test case The role of the market and the growth of competition Locality and community Section two: Services and activity areas The changing framework and purposes of local education authorities Personal social services for older people The changing role of local authorities in housing Police reform Urban regeneration Conclusion scenarios for change References Index

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780335195459

内容説明

Over the past ten years or so there has been an unprecedented amount of change in the world of British local government: for instance the growth of compulsory competitive tendering; the opportunity for schools to opt out of local authority control; the new responsibilities for community care; and the introduction of the community charge (or poll tax) and its subsequent replacement with council tax. And now local government is in the throes of a major and controversial reorganization. There have been several books which have described such changes but this one represents the first systematic attempt to draw out the overall implications of these changes for the future role of local government as an institution. It argues that there are major strategic choices of direction facing local authorities, and that these choices will shape management structures and many other aspects of local choice. The book provides a clear framework of analysis to enable readers to understand the forces at work in this particularly turbulent and unstable period of local government's history, and to see where they are leading.

目次

• Part 1 Dimensions of change and choice: the fragmentation of community government
• the dimensions of analysis - governance, markets and community
• local government reorganization - a test case
• the role of the market and the growth of competition
• locality and community. Part 2 Services and activity areas: the changing framework and purposes of local education authorities
• personal social services for older people
• the changing role of local authorities in housing
• police reform
• urban regeneration
• conclusion - scenarios for change.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27462088
• ISBN:
  • 0335195458
  • 033519348X
• LCCN: 95036217
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 184 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : JS3095
  • DC20 : 320.8/0941
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Local government -- Great Britain
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA17038908