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2014
Combining theory and international practice, this book examines how local government can develop active citizens and make a difference to the well-being of those in disadvantaged areas.
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Combining theory and international practice, this book examines how local government can develop active citizens and make a difference to the well-being of those in disadvantaged areas.
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Local Elections and Local Democracy
1993Abstract In democratic theory the most meaningful link between the preferences of a government’s constituents and its policy decisions is the election of those with political authority. The citizenry translates its policy preferences into municipal action by electing leaders who promise to pursue policies that reflect their objectives.
Charles Brecher +3 more
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2012
This chapter considers the managerial character of local democracy. It asks: Does managerial democracy inhibit or enhance the capacity of most Americans for meaningful self-governance? Who governs in a managerial democracy? In most places, local democracy is less about coalitions of property speculators and machine politicians establishing local ...
J. Eric Oliver +2 more
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This chapter considers the managerial character of local democracy. It asks: Does managerial democracy inhibit or enhance the capacity of most Americans for meaningful self-governance? Who governs in a managerial democracy? In most places, local democracy is less about coalitions of property speculators and machine politicians establishing local ...
J. Eric Oliver +2 more
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1994
Recent debates about the role, form and function of local government have tended to focus on local authorities as mechanisms for delivering services. Yet we have argued for some years that while local government does offer a range of ways of providing good quality service, it is about much more than service delivery (Hambleton, 1988; Hambleton and ...
Danny Burns +2 more
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Recent debates about the role, form and function of local government have tended to focus on local authorities as mechanisms for delivering services. Yet we have argued for some years that while local government does offer a range of ways of providing good quality service, it is about much more than service delivery (Hambleton, 1988; Hambleton and ...
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2000
This book offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. It draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture.
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This book offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. It draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture.
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The Political Quarterly, 2004
ABSTRACTNew Labour's prescriptions for revitalising local democracy drew heavily upon academic analyses that emphasised the loss of power and legitimacy of local government, the need to reconnect local institutions of governance to the populace and to ensure that the dispersed powers of the successor institutions were coordinated locally through new ...
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ABSTRACTNew Labour's prescriptions for revitalising local democracy drew heavily upon academic analyses that emphasised the loss of power and legitimacy of local government, the need to reconnect local institutions of governance to the populace and to ensure that the dispersed powers of the successor institutions were coordinated locally through new ...
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Local Democracy Shaping e-Democracy
2003This paper offers a fresh perspective to study the role and implications of information and communications technologies (ICT) in processes of local democracy. It moves away from earlier perspectives that have given privilege to information flows, information technology features or strategies employed by human actors in their accounts.
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Public Administration and Development, 1996
To identify what is needed to sustain local democracy we need a model of democratic government and an idea of the kind of social and economic context that is supportive of democracy. Local democracy requires a combination of a liberal democratic model of local government and the prerequisites of democratic stability: economic development, equality ...
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To identify what is needed to sustain local democracy we need a model of democratic government and an idea of the kind of social and economic context that is supportive of democracy. Local democracy requires a combination of a liberal democratic model of local government and the prerequisites of democratic stability: economic development, equality ...
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Local Democracy beyond the Local State
1994Local government in the UK is in deep trouble. In Chapter 1 we outlined the main dimensions of the current crisis and explained how the Thatcher government, elected in 1979, introduced a series of measures designed to undermine the power of local authorities, to slash central government financial support to local government and to introduce market ...
Danny Burns +2 more
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