Enabling or disabling local government : choices for the future
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Enabling or disabling local government : choices for the future
（Public policy and management series）
Open University Press, 1996
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [173]-178
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780335193486
Description
* 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.
Table of Contents
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
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: hbk ISBN 9780335195459
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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