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Explores New Localism in the governance of GB including its association with new forms of democracy & new institutions of the state. New Localism is deemed a viable response to the challenge of managing various complex state services that often require a reaction from the service recipient. Also, New Localism meets the need for a more engaging democracy & encourages civic participation by enabling trust, empathy, & social capital. Institutional reforms to the local state are suggested, including more directly elected single-purpose bodies, stronger neighborhood governments, & entrusting local councils with greater strategic power. L. Collins Leigh

This article presents the main themes in the theoretical debates taking place in urban political theory. The first debate is around the analysis of community power and its renewal through such theoretical approaches as growth machines and urban regime theory. The analysis of urban protest is a second debate and the author suggests that the renewal of this analysis should come through the investigation of third force organizations, neither private nor public. The third and final debate is that regarding the emergence of contextual theory, including approaches relating to globalization and regulation theory. The article concludes that urban political science has remained open to new theoretical approaches.