Renewing local democracy? : the modernisation agenda in British local government

Author(s)

• Pratchett, Lawrence

Bibliographic Information

Renewing local democracy? : the modernisation agenda in British local government

editor, Lawrence Pratchett

Frank Cass, 2000

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Bringing together research on different features of the democratic renewal agenda to investigate how local authorities are responding, this text includes a contribution from the main architect of the modernization, Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong.

Table of Contents

• Defining democratic renewal, Lawrence Pratchett
• the key themes of democratic renewal, Hilary Armstrong
• democratic renewal in local government - continuity and change, Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins
• public participation and the democratic renewal agenda - prioritization or marginalization?, Steve Leach and Melvin Wingfield
• researching public participation, Marian Barnes
• the party group - a barrier to democratic renewal, Colin Copus
• political leadership in the new urban governance - Britain and France compared, Peter John and Alistair Cole
• rebuilding trust in central/local relations - policy or passion?, Vivian Lowndes.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA48483381
• ISBN:
  • 0714650463
  • 0714680958
• LCCN: 99040343
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 144 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JS3111
  • DC21 : 352.14/0941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Local government -- Great Britain