Local Government from Thatcher to Blair: The Politics of Creative AutonomyISBN: 978-0-7456-2204-0
Paperback
320 pages
December 2000, Polity
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Preface and Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Part I: The Context of UK Local Government.
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Local Government in the UK.
Chapter 2: Theories of Local Government and Local Governance.
Chapter 3: British Local Government since 1979: Two Decades of Change.
Part II: Local Government from Thatcher to Major: Three Dimensions of Change.
Chapter 4 The Financing of Local Government.
Chapter 5: The Changing Structure and Shape of Local Government.
Chapter 6: Local Government and the Private Sector.
Part III: Local Government Reinvents Itself?.
Chapter 7: Local Elections, Political Realignment and Change in Local Authorities.
Chapter 8: Getting Their Own Houses in Order: New Directions in Local Government Internal Organization.
Chapter 9: Global Problems, Local Solutions: Government and Sustainable Development.
Chapter 10: The Europeanization of British Local Government?.
Part IV: Sub-national Government under New Labour.
Chapter 11: Towards Regional Government? The Introduction of Regional Offices, the Moves towards Devolution and the Notion of Regionalism.
Chapter 12: Local Government under New Labour.
Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.