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Bringing together research on different features of the democratic renewal agenda to investigate how local authorities are responding, this text includes a contribution from the main architect of the modernization, Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong
Bringing together research on different features of the democratic renewal agenda to investigate how local authorities are responding, this text includes a contribution from the main architect of the modernization, Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong.
In: Government beyond the centre
In: Local government studies 25.1999,4
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 477-478
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 478
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 477
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 358-375
ISSN: 1467-9248
Most studies of local autonomy and local democracy fail to distinguish adequately between the two terms. As a consequence, there is an assumed bilateral relationship between them in which changes in one are always deemed to affect the other – particularly in policy formulations. This article develops a stronger analytical distinction between them by considering local autonomy in three separate ways: as freedom from central interference; as freedom to effect particular outcomes; and as the reflection of local identity. Each of these conceptualisations raises different challenges for local democracy and its relationship to broader forms of democratic practice. When used to analyse the recent emergence of the 'new localism' as a policy approach within Britain, this separation also shows significant limitations in current policies towards democratic renewal and central policies that are supposedly focused on outcomes rather than processes. Although localities are being afforded some autonomy, most initiatives are not supporting the enhancement of local democracy.
In: Political studies, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 358-375
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: British Local Government into the 21st Century, p. 213-229
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 378-a-a
ISSN: 0031-2290
Pratchett reviews 'Local Government in the United Kingdom, 3rd edition' by D. Wilson and C. Game.
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 379-a-a
ISSN: 0031-2290
Pratchett reviews 'Governing London' by B. Pimlott and N. Rao.
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 378-379
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 380
ISSN: 0031-2290
Pratchett reviews 'One Vote, One Value: Electoral Re-Districting in English Local Government' by C. Rallings, M. Thrasher and J. Downe.
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 379
ISSN: 0031-2290
Pratchett reviews 'Working Across Boundaries: Collaboration in Public Services' by H. Sullivan and C. Skelcher.