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Reviving local democracy

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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Local Democracy Renewed?

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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Rethinking Local Democracy

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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Rethinking Local Democracy

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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Sustainable local democracy

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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Local democracy in France

2020
Présentation de la démocratie locale en France et points de comparaison avec la démocratie locale au ...
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The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis

Local Government Studies, 2023
Luís de Sousa, Nuno F Da Cruz
exaly  

Reconstructing Local Democracy

1998
Lezing aan de Odense Universitet, 03 november ...
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