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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.
I. Newman
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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.
I. Newman
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Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia
South East Asia Research, 2022This article investigates the strategies used by local social movements to respond to increased extractive industry activities in decentralized Indonesia since 2001.
A. Savirani, Indah Surya Wardhani
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Local Government Studies, 2021
Municipal size affects local democracy through two mechanisms – participation and contestation. By drawing on national-level theories of democracy, this article identifies a necessary tradeoff: decreasing municipal size maximises the participatory ...
K. Kouba, Tomáš Došek
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Municipal size affects local democracy through two mechanisms – participation and contestation. By drawing on national-level theories of democracy, this article identifies a necessary tradeoff: decreasing municipal size maximises the participatory ...
K. Kouba, Tomáš Došek
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Municipal Merger and Local Democracy: An Assessment of the Merger of Japanese Municipalities
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2018Municipal mergers have been widely used as a tool for administrative reform. The goal of most municipal mergers is to increase the efficiency of service provision, but their impact on local democracy has been neglected.
Kohei Suzuki, Hyesong Ha
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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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