| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Great expectations -- the position in 1997 -- 3. New approaches to decision making in local authorities -- 4. Promoting well-being and the community's interest -- 5. Performance and freedoms -- 6. Delivery with partners -- procurement, privatisation, partnerships, trading, and choice -- 7. Joining-up around customers -- the role of e-government -- 8. Councillors, standards, and corruption -- 9. future of local government finance -- 10. New localism -- 11. Local strategic partnerships -- the way forward -- 12. Parishes, town councils, and neighbourhood working -- 13. Regions, sub-regions, and London -- 14. What is the future of local government? |
| Summary |
How does local governance operate in the United Kingdom today? 'Modern Local Government' reviews and explains the complex on-going process of post-1997 modernisation in local government |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-175) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Local government -- Great Britain
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Municipal services -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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Local government
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Municipal services
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849202619 |
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1849202613 |
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0761943757 |
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9780761943754 |
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9781446215692 |
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1446215695 |
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