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AbstractIntermediary bodies liaise between the voluntary and statutory sectors. Frequently, they have also functioned as local development bodies. This article examines changes in the position of intermediary bodies following the growth of welfare pluralistic policies in the late 1980s, as viewed from the framework of a case study of the Council for Voluntary Service in northwest England. The author concludes that while the voluntary and statutory sectors may now be more willing to accept an intermediary role for such bodies, it remain difficult for them also to undertake development work.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Business elites and political power: economic influences on urban policy-making in Birmingham in the later Victorian period -- 2 Regenerating cities : means and ends -- 3 Poverty, mega-cities and social development -- 4 Market forces, inequality and the city -- 5 Faith in the City revisited: a review of the Church of England's impact on urban deprivation and urban policy since 1986 -- 6 Pluralism, separatism and community empowerment : "race" and urban issues -- 7 Care in the Chinese Community -- 8 Broken windows of opportunity: crime, inequality and employment -- 9 Urban policy : problems and paradoxes

AbstractAlthough a number of valuable models of central‐local relationships in the nonprofit sector have been developed, particularly in relation to federal structures, there has been a tendency to assume that in any given organizational relationship central‐local structures will follow one common pattern. We argue that wider strategies are available: central dependency along one dimension may run with greater local autonomy along another. Such mixed tight‐loose structures may be of considerable importance in the "boundaryless" organizational environment of the future.